How very true this is. Jefferson spent his own money purchasing a newspaper to slander his political opponents such as John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. Under pseudonym, these brilliant minds referred to each other in the worst form. Hamilton was a monarchist and a philanderer (the first US sex scandal...) and Adams was called a toothless hermaphrodite. Of course, Jefferson's relations with Sally Hemmings provided a lot of fodder for Hamilton's Federalist faction.
It's nothing new. It's just more ubiquitous with the constant messaging pounding our eyes and ears so it appears that we're more divided - which is precisely what major media outlets want.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Mortimer and Randolph Duke were behind the scheme.
"I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Mortimer and Randolph Duke were behind the scheme."
I'd bet one dollar on that.