The press used to be regarded as honest brokers of the facts. No longer.
I fear tthis is only true for the 48% that didn't vote for the POSOTUS in 08
Regarding that 48%, when I was in elementary school I remember discussions about how difficult it was to imagine Americans killing Americans, even sometimes relatives, in the Civil War. It was a discussion from the perspective of ‘that couldn't happen now’.
However, seeing how divided our country is, and thinking about how hateful the rhetoric often is, I have little trouble imaging a significant proportion of the left being ‘all in’ with the idea of either coercing or eradicating those on the ‘hated’ right. It's clearly gotten that ugly.
I also have no question that a large number would love to see a ‘cultural revolution’ like that of China - just going in a taking stuff from those who have been successful and that they thus resent. To some extent, OWS and the ‘go after the 1%’ movements are early prototypes of a leftist cultural revolution that they wish would happen.