i've talked to left and right wingers in person about this and most seem to agree with this concept or contributed to it. at the vaguest level it's perceived as two groups, the neoliberals/neocons and the populists. the populists have a left (berniecrat, demsoc) and right (trumpian, nazbol-lite) wing. the neos are all the old guard repubs (mitch) and centrist/corporatecrats. at their most basic understanding of this they believe the populists are trying to help the people while the neos only care about the markets. obviously this struggle is being heavily catalyzed by the 2k checks.
Look at you, talking to people in person during the pandemic. So jealous.
sucks being at an "essential" job aka grocery store so there's a pretty big risk for the socialization esp with half the vendors being omega chuds coming in and out with masks on chins. plus customers obviously doing the same shit. does have an interesting cross section of people working there tho.