I would say that to some extent it’s always been there. At different times, the public is more or less willing to hear certain arguments. So arguments that onl

I would say that to some extent it’s always been there. At different times, the public is more or less willing to hear certain arguments. So arguments that only existed in say academia or quarterly political journals are now allowed to flow into more “regular” news sources. Also, it doesn’t help that now Google / Facebook are hated by both the left and the right. Usually you can survive for a while by playing both one side off of another. Very quickly though they got surrounded surrounded on all sides, like the Germans at Stalingrad, and there is no way out, and the vise grows tighter everyday.