Prior to Escalator Day, America was stuck in an increasing Left vs. Right divide. So it was essentially those two groups on the ends with the majority wishing that the ends would get over themselves. Looking back, though, at least the two ends usually shared the same reality, but just with different slants on it.
But since Escalator Day, this new element that was evidently hiding in plain sight within the Right has emerged, one that creates and maintains its own reality as it goes and adheres itself to it completely. This is a third group, it is not small, and this country is in a new territory.
The former Left vs. Right paradigm largely doesn't exist any more, because the conversation is so polluted and perverted by this new part of the populace. And it's pretty clear that this situation isn't going to resolve itself any time soon.