As opposed to notorious for calling people violent, racist and hateful, since those are just accurate assessments, right?

Are you disagreeing here that Republican voters are not more prone to those behaviors than Democrats?

Yes, I am. Both parties have assholes and both parties have great people in roughly equal proportions. The exact shape of the insults the shitty people throw at each other does not matter .

My kneejerk reaction would be that the worst of both sides are equally bad, but the proportions are wildly different.