They seem to intuit that legacy standards of civil discourse have been corrupted and weaponized, and that some new standard is required. Decades of bad faith arguments, predominantly from right wing media and the Republican party, whether about climate change, racism, health care, tax policy, worker protections, or social disparities, are a major factor in that disenchantment. The traditional standards of evenhanded, open discourse have been turned against democracies around the world, at times with very negative consequences (Hungary, Poland, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, etc.).