pointing out that race relations are at their worst in decades. Because every time I hear people saying that in regards to Obama, it's feeding into the general line of thinking among conservatives that Obama not only failed at bringing us together, but he's largely the one at fault for driving a wedge between us

>In anycase....I strongly disagree with sentiment I see popping
>around that all this stuff is 'business as usual' which DOES
>also exist outside of an Obama-related context. To be
>clearer...there is a popular view popping up here and there
>that the alt-right/brietbart/Brexit/Trump stuff isn't a real
>cultural shift. That's what I'm disagreeing with.

I wouldn't call it business as usual, but I'm not sure i'd say what's going on now is a cultural shift either... i guess it depends on what you mean. I haven't seen anyone change how they already feel. Some may feel more emboldened now, but I haven't seen anyone who wasn't already kind of racist/sexist/homophobic suddenly become that. I've def seen more and more people fall for false narratives pushed by Breitbart/Trump, etc... and that actual facts don't seem to mean shit anymore, and people happy to live in their own reality (the left isn't immune to this either) and that absolutely scares me. Mainly because Trump is so gifted at this sort of thing.