Yes, even here on HN, in the fall of 2016 you'd recive massive downvotes for not hating enough on conservatives. I ended up stating on most of my posts that I

Yes, even here on HN, in the fall of 2016 you'd recive massive downvotes for not hating enough on conservatives. I ended up stating on most of my posts that I didn't like Trump and didn't want him to win but - just tried to come up with an explanation for why so many others voted for him - or tried to point out that the rules that allowed him to win had allowed democrats to win before - etc I still received loads of downvotes (I'd see my points rising and then falling sharply, seemingly when some part of the word woke up.) All in all I came out positive wrt useless points but I still wondered about it. And BTW: I still really don't like that man.