we had just come off this bitterly contested closest election in our history that was decided by hanging chads and finally and ultimately the supreme court decided the election. and, you know, everyone accepted george w. bush as the legitimate president. but not everyone was happy about it. and so i think the ugliness that we see, we saw erupt in some anti-muslim sentiment after 9/11, that we saw erupt in the rise of donald trump, and that we see now on the far right, i think it's been there. it needed the sparks and catalysts to let it express itself. and it's here now, and in our faces in way that we haven't seen in a long time.