between extreme gerrymandering and the balkanization of the media, politics has gotten far more partisan.
republicans under shrub (cheney particularly) were quite contemptuous of democrats, but shrub generally pretended to put want bipartisanship and at least on the surface, showed occassional respect for democrats and left-leaning independents.
not donnie.
donnie has consistently been all-in for the right wing and for the republican party, and has consistently demonstrated complete contempt for democrats and the left.
if you're on the right, this makes him look like your hero and makes you feel like your views, which up until recently were rightly shamed in public, finally seem completely validated and legitimate. of course he's got intense support among a minority of the population.
then foxnews comes along and turns loyalty to donnie into loyalty to the party and to america and to all things holy. it's a matter of identity. they don't let their viewers be upstanding republicans yet disagree with donnie. if donnie says there are five lights when your eyes tell you there are only four, then you better say there are five lights or else you're an un-american terrorist.
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