It's actually a bit weird, a bit sad, and maybe something that I shouldn't have become desensitized to, that people have lied about me and it doesn't even phase me anymore.
What's more, I'm regularly accused by honest, good people, of disproportionality targeting the Left. Well, I guess I'll apologize for noticing that the people who have defamed me and actually managed to ruin professional and personal relationships with their lies have all been on the Left. I have friends all across the political spectrum. I'm sorry that I don't have any Trump voter friends who have actively tried to drag my name and reputation through the mud; but, I personally haven't.
I do have thoughts about why this may be. It does seem that the Left disproportionality has a sense of moral certitude. The Left also seems to latch more to, what Thomas Sowell calls, the "unconstrained vision." So, lies are okay so long as they serve the cause.
What's even more odd is that I'm closer to being on the Left than I am to being on the Right. Where am I a Right winger? Is it my support for gun ownership? Maybe. My support of free markets? The Right is pretty bad at that, too. My support of free speech? That's historically been supported by the Left. But, the Left has become a cult during my lifetime in a way that the Right hasn't.
I don't want to find it easier to befriend people on the Right than people on the Left; but, people on the Right are making it a lot fucking easier at the moment.