One of the issues I see is that half of the country seems to see Oath Keepers and Threepers as “extremist militias”, while the other half sees them as a reasona

One of the issues I see is that half of the country seems to see Oath Keepers and Threepers as “extremist militias”, while the other half sees them as a reasonable reaction to an increasingly powerful government. I’m explicitly not taking a position on this topic -instead, I want to call out the significant disparity in perspective. HN seems to nearly unanimously accept the labels applied to these groups without question while other communities of which I’m part reject them (also without question). More worrying than the polarization to me is the fact that neither group seems aware that other sees things so differently, and that the opposite opinion is broadly held by the other side. The assumption seems to be that only “extremists” would hold that view, when the reality is that 30%+ of the population share it. The “moderate” position is vanishingly small these days.