Progressives deride supporters of President Donald Trump as willfully ignorant reactionaries, even racists.
Fans of the president respond in kind, dismissing liberals as snowflakes and worse.
The escalating war of words is a clear and present danger to American democracy, said Carolyn Lukensmeyer, executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, in a presentation sponsored by the Topeka-based Sunflower Foundation’s Advocacy in Health speaker series.