Oh absolutely. Some of the older Republicans knew that this was all just silly political games. They’d blast what a Dem would say during the day and then go out drinking with that same person at night. Many of those old timers were on quite friendly terms but they played the game that the “other side” was the bad guy. Thats simply how politics was done.
This younger group don’t get that. They grew up seeing their Republican heros blast the Left on Fox News. They didn’t know it was mostly just a game. They got radicalized by right wing media and many of them simply can’t be reasoned with because they don’t see politics as a game, they see it as a life-and-death war.
Oh absolutely. Some of the older Republicans knew that this was all just silly political games. They’d blast what a Dem would say during the day and then go out drinking with that same person at night. Many of those old timers were on quite friendly terms but they played the game that the “other side” was the bad guy. Thats simply how politics was done.
This younger group don’t get that. They grew up seeing their Republican heros blast the Left on Fox News. They didn’t know it was mostly just a game. They got radicalized by right wing media and many of them simply can’t be reasoned with because they don’t see politics as a game, they see it as a life-and-death war.