I think Ben Carson was the first wake up call for me. As a grad-school dropout, I couldn't believe this loon was a doctor, or look at ACB on SCOTUS for example, or to the full absurdity; Rudy G. Maybe it's the university they attended, maybe it's an exceptional ability to compartmentalize, but I never knew before the past five years or so how many well-educated professional people are total loons.
And although I have admittedly known several well-educated looney liberals as well, especially living in Ann Arbor, it's a different kind of lunacy. It's the difference between legislation narrowing down a busy thoroughfare to make another bike lane vs. actively encouraging the spread of a plague that has killed about as many if not more people than Germans did during the Holocaust.
Apples and oranges I say.
Which also leads me to wonder, what kind of spiteful tactics do police forces in pretty much every other country use since they aren't permitted to murder with impunity?
It's almost as if our law enforcement culture might be slightly dysfunctional.