“Democrats such violent jerks.”
They’ve never recovered from Al Gore’s loss in 2000; that bitterness has broken them. Even after Reagan, during the Clinton years, you could discuss issues with most Democrats and have amicable conversation.
That breed of Democrat is nearly extinct.
I wouldn’t say that. Most Dems have always treated us as evil, and stupid. Not only on the national-news scale, but real people. I was a College Republican and it wasn’t easy (though not violent - just that as usual, Maryland collegians were shocked to find out I was Republican and I think too dumb-founded to do much of anything).