A sincere request/question: What's with the hate-Rachel movement here?

[Hekate]

1. You'll hear something about her being actual (gasp choke) pals with Gretchen Carlson

Because obviously everyone ever affiliated with FOX is irredeemably tainted with leprosy and must be banished. Rachel welcomed Gretchen to MSNBC and announced they like each other. Some people ran for their smelling salts.

But that's recent.

Frankly, given the level of animus among some DUers for many people/organizations/whatever that we might believe are favorable to progressives/Democrats -- personally, after slogging through some of those threads recently with no end in sight, I believe DU is being trolled by disruptors.

But hey, I could be wrong. I certainly won't name names, because then I'd be in trouble myself for causing disharmony.

Oh, PS: DU as a community can be fickle. The tv newsman Aaron Brown was awfully popular in the early days of DU. Then they turned on him like a pack of dogs, and afterward danced on his grave when he was fired. I have not forgotten that, not even a little.