It took only a few hours for more than 2,600 comments to pile onto a single political post in a New Hampshire Facebook post. Not thoughtful debate. Not spirited disagreement. Thousands of reactions, many of them dripping with contempt.
This is the Live Free or Die state, where independence is stitched into our flags and etched onto our license plates.
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