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I definitely feel that tribalism. That said, I'm shocked that thinking about death increased the likelihood that progressives would vote for Trump. That seems crazy.
Also, I'm not optimistic that knowing something is coming means we'll be better prepared for it. Remember this pesky little global pandemic we're in?
I do understand the idea that existential fear can lead to violence. If I truly believed that the democracy was at stake and that all of the legal avenues were exhausted, I can definitely contemplate avenues that I wouldn't have contemplated previously. I think that the average Republican voter is being purposefully misguided into that by their party.
I think that's what makes the Republican party so egregious... they trap their audiences in these echo chambers, radicalize them and then downplay the Nazi flags and mass shootings as a few bad apples. However hate and antagonizing others is being shown to be the likely outcome for any being that has been fed a steady diet of existential angst and conspiracies.