Tell me, how did we get this bad?

It’s because the political parties are further apart then they have been in a very long time. The left has veered far towards more socialist ideas and the right has coalesced around conservatism. Since these two ideologies don’t have much overlap, they mix like oil and water.

Well I think the typical consensus is that the right stayed where they were and the left moved off the charts.. then apparently everyone on the right became Hitler overnight...

And they express it!