The Trump Era saw vicious political polarization. Has it cooled off under Biden?
Here is an objective, documented fact: Republicans believe that there were two invasions of the Capital in January. The riot was a horrible debacle, to be sure, but if they’re being consistent, it’s a minor peccadillo compared to the second violation of that hallowed national sanctum: the moment Joseph R. Biden stole onto its steps to be sworn as our 46th president. According to an NPR/PBS public opinion survey , just 24% of Republicans accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, with the majority of those remaining believing high members of the other party to have conspired to steal it in the single greatest act of political fraud in history. That is, almost half of the voting population believes that the United States is no longer politically legitimate, democracy has surrendered to an elaborate swindle, and the White House has been burglarized by the current administration. Surely this would be worse than any riot, if it were true. If anything, if people believed this,