Radicalization, Served Two Ways

How do left-leaning people get radicalized vs. right-leaning people?

I’ve wondered for a few years now how people get radicalized into a specific set of “societal edge case beliefs,” be that school shootings or bombings or killing your wife vs. getting divorced, etc. I find it fascinating because it means you have to be comfortable completely moving outside of any societal guardrails. How does someone reach that point?

At the same time, what’s interesting recently is two-fold:

1. Everything (in America at least) seems like it has to be ideological.

2. We don’t really “see” each other anymore, or at least people on the opposite ideological side.

Let’s say there are two types of “radicalization.” Trump classifies almost anyone who even contemplated voting for Kamala “the radical left,” so I am not sure his exact definition of a radicalized person on the left is the correct one, but in general you’d probably think of someone talking about defund the police, or reading off a list of 191 genders, or screaming about how everyone deserves their loans forgiven. Maybe you’d throw in something about trans or femcels.

On the right,