'This partisan division is certainly a departure from America’s past. Yet, this does not appear to be solely a Trump-induced phenomenon,' mattklewis writes.
Once again, Trump seems to be as much of a symptom of this trend as he is a cause or accelerant of it....the political figure who is so outrageous and evil as to warrant cutting off friends and family is…Mitt Romney.“Among Democrats, 63 percent see Republicans as immoral,” which rings true. But according to the data, this number is dramatically “up from just 35 percent who said so in 2016.” When it comes to suggesting that this phenomenon is new, Pew’s polling seems to be an outlier.
Anecdotal cultural artifacts confirm that a lot of this polarization predates Trump. Think pieces about this subject abounded in 2014 ., which quotes someone named “Ollie” who had this to say on Facebook: “I don’t want to have anything to do with someone who’d vote for Romney… I choose to take their support for Republicans as a personal attack on my right to control my body. Friendship can’t survive that.
The author, a blogger and former teacher, goes on to say: “Once, I would have pitied anyone who cut off contact with a family member over political differences. That pity came from the privilege of imagining that the stakes were too low to matter. I see now just how high they are.” Again, it would be understandable if this piece had been written in 2021, after Trump attempted to overturn a free and fair election. What interests me is the convergence of a couple of things.
First, this dogmatic attitude is coming from the left . Second, the political figure who is so outrageous and evil as to warrant cutting off friends and family is…If Republicans felt threatened enough after Romney’s loss in 2012 to embrace Donald Trump in 2016, to what degree did attitudes like this feed a sense of hopelessness that led to radicalization?
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