Oh, "two of many factors"?
Yet the factors you emphasize, conveniently enough, are those two—and without evidence. 
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Devil's Advocate: Groups who feel disenfranchised seek out radical ways to exercise political power. If conservatives felt they had no voice in govt and media, the creation of a radical conservative splinter group was inevitable (Tea Party), which then consumes the GOP's core.
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Perhaps, but funny how to conservatives the radicalism of the Tea Party was just patriots "taking back their country," even though Tea Party tactics were, if anything, more extreme than the left's now, while milder protests now by the left leave them clutching their pearls.
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Replying to @gorskon @c0nc0rdance and
Yea, I mean we know reactionaries are reacting to what they perceive to be threats. But they also make up or exaggerate threats, because that is their fuel. Blaming the left for this is silly as there is no way for them not to piss off the right other than stop existing.
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Replying to @chrisiousity @gorskon and
I don't think blaming individuals makes any sense. There's a worrying trend in political polarization, ideological silos. It's unlike what we've seen in the past. http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/ …pic.twitter.com/P5COZpDUjk
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Replying to @c0nc0rdance @chrisiousity and
"Americans with different political views are a threat to our nation" is bad rhetoric, dangerous to our democracy, and increasing over time. I see Trump as a symptom of that growing divide, but don't know causes or solutions.pic.twitter.com/8URBhKpILs
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Replying to @c0nc0rdance @gorskon and
Yea, I've seen these. And to be honest I am not sure there is any immediate solution. I recently re-examined a book (for a video I am doing) from 2008 called "State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind" by a psychologist who worked in DC.
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Replying to @chrisiousity @gorskon and
I live it every day; my wife is decidedly more conservative than I am, and her family are the furthest to the right it is possible to go. I grew up Republican, in an era when you could be a Rockefeller Republican: pro-intellectual, fiscal conservatism, state&local govt centric.
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Replying to @c0nc0rdance @chrisiousity and
From age 18, when I cast my first vote for Reagan to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I voted 99% Republican and was very conservative. Beginning in the 1990s the rising craziness of the Republican Party increasingly bothered me until I finally left after the last straw (Iraq).
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Replying to @gorskon @c0nc0rdance and
I remember...I think I was there for the final conversion. I didn't like Clinton either but I found the bigotry, homophobia and anti-science of the Gingrich Republicans worse. The last election I voted R in congress was 1996 - for Morella who was a reasonable person.
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The last Republican I voted for nationally was GWB in 2000. The inertia was strong. I'd already gone at least 75% of the way towards abandoning the Republican Party, but just couldn't quite pull the trigger that year. I wish I had.
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