Democrats label Republicans racist/bigoted/sexist as political divide intensifies

(Washington Post) -Democrats can apparently tolerate anything except Republicans. A stunning 61 percent of Democrats labeled Republicans as racist/bigoted/sexist" when asked which words they would use to describe the other party while 31 percent of Republicans said the same thing about Democrats according to an Axios poll released this week. Not that Republicans were particularly fond of the left. They preferred to dub Democrats spiteful" (54 percent) and ignorant" (49 percent) while 54 percent of Democrats said Republicans were ignorant and 44 percent called them spiteful. When it came to evil" there was a tie: 23 percent of Republicans used the word to describe Democrats roughly the same share as the 21 percent of Democrats who said so about Republicans. There was also sobering news for any Democrat planning to bring home a Republican to Mom and Dad: 41 percent of Democrats said they would be extremely/very" or somewhat" bothered if a close family member married a member of a different political party. Read More