100 years ago you would have been dragged out of your work place and beaten to death by a violent mob.

We're much more calm about our political disagreements than we used to be. The 90's was just a decade where the Left were still recovering from the absolute ass-blasting they got in the 80's as a result of the Days Of Rage campaign of the 70's, and the perpetual violence of the 1960's. Twenty years of constant Leftist violence and agitation ended with them pretending to be interested in lowering crime that they caused with the Warren court.