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He's pretty typical, honestly. There is a very large contingent of people who think exactly like he does. 10 years ago, he might be fairly cast as an outlier. Not anymore.
I dont think HN has enough sprawl to meaningfully support subreddit-like fragmentation, personally.
There is demonstrably one party that pushes a heavily moderate corporatist populist agenda and one party that pushes radical christian nationalist policies which a majority of the population is not in favor of, from a heavily gerrymandered and structurally unfair (the Dakotas have the same number of Senators as NY and CA, f.x.) political position carefully engineered since the advent of the Southern Strategy.
Now, im not making a statement of 'correctness' vis a vis one side or the other, but if youre a woman or a person of color or queer in this country, The GOP policy platform is inherently hostile to your continued free existence.
The hatred is flowing mostly from the right, and being enacted into law.