I blame.......for our present shit show.

[Undertoad]

We shall wait for the next survey to show that, but, from the highly respected Pew organization:

https://www.people-press.org/interac...ion-1994-2017/

Please click on "Animate data from 1994-2017". In 2011 the Rs move right; in 2017 the Ds match and move left. We wind up with partisan polarization.

If you click on "Overall" and "General public" and animate, you see that polarization is happening, but there is still a big middle. There is an overall trend towards liberalism (which we should expect over generations) but also, a bubble developing near the "consistently liberal". I believe that bubble reflects progressivism, and in particular, the intersectionality/political correctness mind virus*, a wildly fast cultural swing, as seen in this NY Times word frequency chart:



(click here for a really big version.)

Part of the Trump phenomenon is a rejection of this virus and this is what Jonathan Pie pointed out 3.5 years ago.

*Yeah it is