Social media was already massive, it was just primarily Facebook and Twitter (Arab Spring heavily involved social media). The US tea party movement had been around for a few years, some people were still very jazzed up about Affordable Care Act, only part of the defense of marriage act had been overturned and lawsuits would continue for a few more years. Conservatives hated Obama and were already talking about taking their country back.
Most everything in the US is just extrapolation plus some pandemic fuel.
Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit had been going for years by 2013, so social media was massive. Trump actually ran for president in 2000, but he wasn’t the phenomena he is now. “Woke” wasn’t a term in the way it is today, but conservatives were just as anti-liberal.
Like I said, we’re for sure more polarized than ten years ago, but it’s a matter of degrees.
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Social media was already massive, it was just primarily Facebook and Twitter (Arab Spring heavily involved social media). The US tea party movement had been around for a few years, some people were still very jazzed up about Affordable Care Act, only part of the defense of marriage act had been overturned and lawsuits would continue for a few more years. Conservatives hated Obama and were already talking about taking their country back.
Most everything in the US is just extrapolation plus some pandemic fuel.
Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit had been going for years by 2013, so social media was massive. Trump actually ran for president in 2000, but he wasn’t the phenomena he is now. “Woke” wasn’t a term in the way it is today, but conservatives were just as anti-liberal.
Like I said, we’re for sure more polarized than ten years ago, but it’s a matter of degrees.