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What's more and really contributing to just how stark the new divide is is that this is the first time in a really long time that the liberals have been more insane than the conservatives. Going back by decade, the 2000's had the crazy aggressive neocons and the post-9/11 uptake in security and the unpopular Middle Eastern wars. In the '90's, Bill Clinton was a lot more moderate a president than I think a lot of Hill-Dog supporters realize. He cut back welfare and he didn't legalize gay marriage. The far left was kinda quiet at the time and the far right, since there always have been and always will be crazy religious nuts, were the lolcow-ish ones. The White House of the '80's was entirely run by Republicans (Reagan then Bush), and of course it's always fun to make fun of the party who's in charge. The early part of the '70's had the unpopular Nixon in office and the rest of the decade was in the shadow of Watergate, and then the '60's were, well, the '60's. The last time it's been really in vogue to not like the left was the '50's, better dead than red and all that. That was most of these SJWs's grandparents's generation. They never thought the winds would change against them because for the longest time, it hasn't.
I also think that the general skeptic types (your first type) tend to criticize whatever party is most violent/warmongering, and for a long time now that's been conservatives (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan). Now liberals are crying for white/male/het/cis blood.
