Political Anger, Cont.

This, too:

One recent working paper found that the more partisan people become, the more likely they are to rationalize violence against those they don’t agree with, to experience schadenfreude or moral disinterest when they see an opponent get attacked, and even to endorse physical assaults on other groups. “Though most Americans reject violence, as more of us embrace strong partisanship, the prevalence of lethal partisanship is likely to grow,” wrote the political scientists Lilliana Mason and Nathan Kalmoe.

I've felt that schadenfreude, myself, and sometimes its a very real struggle to remind myself that such an attitude is bad. That the long term consequences are not worth the pleasure a perceived comeuppance gives. It doesn't matter if they're Republican or Democrat, or how distasteful I find them, none of them deserve to have people sending death threats (as just one example).