I have a relative who is among the best people I know and is a strong Democrat. She accepts that people disagree with her and even notes that her Trumpy neighbors are generally nicer than her liberal ones.
She still thinks Trump is awful, perhaps evil, and generally believes what she reads. She is smart, immensely ethical, and will or has voted her conscience.
I think most people on all sides of political issues are like that. They are just peaceful people who are not looting a store, pooping in the street, or committing evil deeds not newsworthy.
So, we rarely see them in our newsfeeds. They are invisible when we consume the news and follow the insanity of the 21st century.
I do believe–and there is lots of evidence that this is the case–that the proportion of nutty people doing awful things has grown considerably. Our institutions are fundamentally…
