mrtaway90210

Have you considered that people use angry mobs because good counterarguments get dismissed historically, and how they are angry, and want to do capture the momentum of rhetoric?

Historically, the mainstream news media would not even cover certain stories and would just spike them. People eventually go upset and found other ways to tell their story or force their opinion, e.g., social media and mobs.

Interesting fact: please see: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-201...

Scroll to Brooklyn NY. Trump enjoyed 93% support in an all Hasidic Jewish neighborhood (ocean parkway district.) and 80%+ support across most hasidic Jewish districts.

>> I keep hearing this argument that the tone and style of political arguments are getting more vicious and causing harm to society, but nobody can give me concrete examples of what they mean.

Just visit twitter and search for "muslim" or "jew" or "african american" and you'll find plenty of vicious and dehumanizing rhetoric. In any hour-long surfing session, you'll see accounts calling for all sorts of ethnic cleansing.

Your comment is the most on point here. The real tribe in US politics are those who want status quo vs those that dont. The major parties are both just flavors of the same status quo.