I can understand being upset about the results of an election, but if you're someone trying to be a government official, elected or not, you should damn well have something to back that up when you say stuff like that.
Wouldn't mind congress getting split if it meant people calmed down and actually started working together to keep things functioning like they're supposed to.
I think it became like that through twitter being this social space where they didn't have to be there "news selves" but now that how we get our news has changed and twitter is a part of it they still haven't course corrected very well in the new environment.
I'd hazard a guess that she's saying that they are very wary/anti communist so the misinformation of labeling anything one side doesn't like as socialism/communism has had effect with them.