There’s a whole industry of political consultants and media figures making hay by relentlessly scolding Dems (and random people online who get conflated with Dems) for causing all of this, while billionaires flagrantly destroy our institutions and Trump voters embrace ever more extreme positions. The truth is that the right has long been an engine of demonizing liberals, while simultaneously portraying liberals as the abusers. It’s the “Always Blame the Left” strategy. In our currently skewed media environment, the idea that if a nebulously-defined “left” just stopped saying certain things, the right would stop getting more extreme and politics would go back to normal again is just completely absurd.
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