In your opinion, when did the current extreme partisanship in US politics begin?

Reagan famously worked with a democrat congress.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was confirmed with 96 votes in 1993
John Roberts was confirmed with 78 votes in 2005.
Samuel Alito had very little Democrat support in 2006
By 2008, there was very little across-the-aisle collaboration.

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BohoBabe · M

Of course there was no one clear moment, but I think the closest thing we have is Newt Gingrich encouraging Republicans to call their opponents "sick" and "evil" while continually moving Right, and calling the Democrats "too far Left" even as they keep moving to the Right to try meeting the Republicans halfway. Gingrich understood the weakness of Liberalism. Liberals are institutionalist, which Gingrich was able to exploit.

Another big moment in more recent years was the 4chan forum /pol/ which normalized Nihilist Fascism on the internet. We now know that Epstein was behind /pol/ which is both horrible and hilarious.