Hate is getting more and more acceptable.

This is a very intentional goal, and conservatives have been pushing for it basically since Reagan. For a while, saying that you where a white supremacist was generally not acceptable socially, being too racist was considered bad.

Now, conservatives are proudly bigoted, and that gives cover to everyone else. Every time somebody makes a racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic "joke" and gets no pushback, it makes it a little more acceptable to keep making those jokes.

Every time a conservative pundit or influencer goes on a racsist tirade, or homophobic one etc, it tells the people watching that its ok for them to be super bigoted.

And so they are.

Fox News

Which I don't understand really.

The only think about the VW I don't like (I drive one for work), is that it uses your phones internet to connect, so if you want to use Wifi and connect to your car...you cant.

That may be an optional setting I haven't found yet, but beyond that I like the car.

Do not buy the Hyundai Ioniq. The car itself is great (although it has a lot of modern features you dont want) but dealing with Hyundai is such a nightmare that I will never again buy a Hyundai.

Furure sociologists are going to be spending entire careers trying to sort out how the US went so badly wrong.

Not really, we already know how the Nazis went so badly wrong, and the US is following basically the same path. The very wealthy are causing a massive redistribution of wealth, and using propaganda to convince Christians that its all somebody elses fault.

They are using that farmed hatred to drive Christians into fascism

Its the same playbook, and we already know how it works.