Of course political comedy existed in the past, but it feels different now in that people's identities are tied up in their politics and people turn to politics for entertainment. And I cannot say that is a good thing or something we need more of... the fact that more and more people seem to have turned away from other forms of entertainment in their lives toward being rage farmed by cable news and political punditry hasn't left us any better off, just more divided.
This is spot on.
I would just add that the decreased lack of physical engagement that has kinda left people siloed off from the rest of the world, and as we have discussed here before, it is so much easier to dehumanize when discussing politics (especially the culture war stuff) whenever you are doing it over the internet versus dealing with someone in person.
On a personal and micro level, I've made some changes to my social media diet and media intake diet to change, but I don't know how you can fix that on a macro level... the culture, particularly online, seems addicted to rage