So let’s ignore the whole Dylan Mulvaney part of this video (which is like all of it, I know). The thing I wanted to talk about in this video is something that I’ve noticed both conservatives and liberals doing: setting up this “us versus them” idea.

Here, it’s extreme. How quickly Walsh shoves his critics into the “them” group, and how quickly he turns against them, despite the fact that the people calling him “mean” are pretty traditional conservatives that would likely agree with a lot of the other stuff Walsh says. The harshly spoken “they” and “them” emphasizes a divide between an “us” and a “those other people” in such an exaggerated, vile way that it just stokes that fire of “we are two separate species of people, and we should be natural enemies of one another and should never compromise on our views. If you have ANY of the same viewpoints as the “other,” you are a traitor and are just as bad as them.”

I think there’s always been an “us versus them” mentality in politics, but I think everything’s just become so much more divisive than it ever has been, which makes it hard to actually operate as a unified country.

It’s pretty sad, really.