Mostly because of Fox News, which was on all the time at his nursing home. I kept asking that it be turned to soap operas or cricket games, but they kept changing it back to Fox News. He was angry about "sharia law", though he'd never met a Muslim in his life, and he was angry about "racial people," though almost every person who took good care of him at the home were African-Americans. He was just angry, and couldn't love anymore. It was awful.
But he was an older generation (born in 1933) and was not as savvy as we boomers are (or half of us are) about media.
As a boomer, I have to point out, as someone said upthread, we have been a divided generation from nursery school age. Don't blame all of us, because many of us protested the Vietnam war and were still protesting the Iraq war. I went to a protest in 2002, and every single antiwar person there was boomer age, and boy, did we love singing the Fish cheer:
And it's 1-2-3 What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's 5-6-7, open up the pearly gates,
Ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopee!
We're all gonna die.
Well, it sounded more rousing when we sang it. 
Anyway, when I heard those high school kids chanting, it brought back memories-- we used those chants too.
No doubt there are neanderthal Trump-loving Fox watching boomers-- many. But there are many who have spent our lives caring for other people.
Now if somehow we could just throttle Fox News, well, that would be a great legacy.
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