This is a general human instinct worsened by being told constantly that the other side is already planning how they'll execute you
There's a piece going around about how liberals have moved further left than conservatives have moved right -- which could absolutely be true! But I do think that such data tends to be used to argue "THEY'RE MAKING US BE THIS WAY"
(Especially since it really depends on how you define "left" and "right" and which cultural issues one uses as a marker, if any. Like, conservatives have not, as I've seen, gotten more limited-government-y since 2015.)
(And I think there are a lot of lefties who think "liberals" have moved further right. Anyway, here's a writeup of that piece:theweek.com/politics/10023…)
(This reminds me that there's an argument that same-sex marriage -- which is included here as an example of Ds moving left -- is an inherently conservative concept. Here's a paper on the subject: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…)
(A friend notes that the Drum/Linker analysis doesn't include how voters think on these issues -- for example, 70% of voters approve of same-sex marriage. news.gallup.com/poll/350486/re…)
(It would perhaps be more helpful to know not just how parties have moved, but how voters have too -- which Republicans are well aware of, given how few challenges there have been to Obergefell.)

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