Sad and bizarre. My experience has been different. Since 2008, things have been more relaxed.
It has to do with education. When you see stories like the coach who parroted Rush's racist insults about the FLOTUS, the patience is amazing.
The denigration of non-whites, the poor, females and all is more than I have ever seen since the Civil Rights days and those people were fought back and made to shut up. Now they have the mainstream media spewing their filth.
The way minorities are considered suspect, as if lacking in any integrity and with foul motivations such as the Obamas are smeared with daily, is just nauseating.
Because of the overflowing cesspool, if this is happening anywhere, it is a reaction not to Obama's actions or words, but their own. Obama didn't make the GOP attendees call the black news reporter names and throw peanuts at her, did he? Obama didn't encourage people to make racist tweets and other statements, did he?
No, these people have brought it on themselves. There will be fallout for them showing their hate. What did they expect, flowers?
The main problem is the bullies are often not the ones who will suffer for this disharmony, but the peacemakers. The people pushing this hatred should be shunned.