> Post Trump I think that has gotten even worse and people are now openly wishing ill on the whole country so that their party may benefit in the next election.

> Post Trump I think that has gotten even worse and people are now openly wishing ill on the whole country so that their party may benefit in the next election. This has been a thing since Obama was elected. McConnell explicitly stated that the goal was to just block everything and make Obama a one-term president, and that's how they've played policy since then. Even things that would have been completely uncontroversial "routine business" even as recently as the bush years (just a few years prior) suddenly were dragged to a halt. Debt ceiling increases on money that had already been spent by prior bills (again, many passed during the Bush years), for example. It all goes back to Gingrich and the Contract With America, and things have only gotten more polarized in the years since. They've been playing out the same script ever since. It just gets more and more polarized every time they lose an election... because it keeps working.