While listening to NPR tonight, this story made me chuckle:

From Congress To Local Health Boards, Public Officials Suffer Threats And Harassment

The story itself isn’t funny. The harassment being heaped upon officials isn’t funny. What’s funny? That NPR is shocked, SHOCKED to find out that this sort of thing is going on in 2020 outside private homes:

“They had a bullhorn and were talking into that and then running sirens, and they were banging on some kind of drums outside. They were playing the soundtrack from Scarface,” Lachiondo said.

Oh… NOW you care?!?!

But wait, it gets better:

And while there have been instances of violence across the political spectrum in recent years, Kleinfeld said that right now there seems to be more violent rhetoric and behavior on the conservative end of the spectrum.

“We’re at a moment of polarization right now that’s much higher than the last moment of militia activity,” she said. “The level of polarization [is] quite a bit higher even than the 1970s, when we had a lot of political violence in this country, mostly from the left then. Now it’s mostly from the right.”

Riiiiiiiiight.