Islamophobia united the American political spectrum and media by 2020

Evidence

This was his moment. Or so he thought. He had sat in that seat during the ninety-minute lecture, prepared to parrot what he learned from a podcast or social media, a liberal pundit or populist in the White House. In 2020, these divergent sources of information, which disagreed on almost everything else, found common ground with regard to Islam—namely, in their disdain for it and its adherents. Islamophobia was a bipartisan commitment that spilled across the political spectrum. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 361

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Kumar Iftikhar’s account of bipartisan Islamophobia in American politics, the paired text for this read.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: how 2020 saw Islamophobic consensus form across presumably opposed media and parties while they fought over everything else.