re: #81 retired cynic

Interesting OpEd. This is what struck me:

That sounds familiar. In a 2017 survey of 1,000 Americans, 40 percent of both Republicans and Democrats said that the other party was “not just worse for politics — they are downright evil,” researchers Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason found. Five to 15 percent said they would support some level of violence against their political opponents. (And this range was the same on both sides.)

Two issues here. One policical party is not functioning as one, it’s working against the rule of law. But an even deeper problem: hate has been fomented for decades by one party against the other. Paranoia and malign intent is part of their identity.

One party stoked the hot rhetoric and hate, and now one party is actively working against the rule of law and destroying our administrative state.

One party actually is evil.