The orange man is bad. What I find of great concern is that the US used to have a strong dissident faction that was against government suppression of basic rig

The orange man is bad. What I find of great concern is that the US used to have a strong dissident faction that was against government suppression of basic rights such as free speech. Now, we have two cheerleading factions. I feel the division in the country has stoked authoritarian sentiment on both sides as they desperately grasp for measures to suppress each other.