An overwhelming majority of Americans, 85%, said political violence in the United States has been increasing, according to the survey.
One Republican respondent said: “We have a larger divide between the right and left than ever before, so we don’t see each other as people but as the ‘enemy.’ When you see someone as an enemy, you can justify a lot of awful actions.”
And an independent respondent, who leans Democrat, said: “The country has, over time, become politically only two major parties with severely extreme and opposite views.”