I had a non-American friend I respect yesterday try to make a "both sides bad" argument and it's like, yeah some twitter leftists are jerks, but how do you compare that with an R base fueled by decades of a right wing media landscape militantly training them to HATE "the libs"? https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1324444654788440065

a congressman elect's first message to his constituents. what poise. what dignity.

now imagine someone on the left doing the same.

and this isn't just about trump's influence--common refrains like "liberal hunting season" and "ironic" threats from conservatives didn't start with him. far right news is big $, to say nothing about facebook. this has been a steady drumbeat for decades, and it is not going away.

I'm not saying the left doesn't deserve criticism, but to insinuate that the way R's conduct themselves, let alone the way R's are expected to conduct themselves, is on an equal playing field is just intellectual dishonesty. They run and win on cruelty. https://twitter.com/InnuendoStudios/status/1324449305059622920?s=20