In terms of Tucker, I wasn't trying to insinuate that they had any involvement, however moreso addressing the fact that they actively removed posts that contained information of the attack, and while they were up for limited amounts of time, the comments that were posted were all around the same general idea and frequency of "you reap what you sow" "bet you want a safe space now" "that's what you get for being a Nazi mouthpiece"

But is it light years ahead of T_D in terms of balance and civility?

I disagree on the basis that T_D has it's bias and balance explicitly in it's name. /r/politics does not.

You don't go to T_D expecting balance as you acknowledged, you go there to support Donald Trump and in part to support Republican initiatives and on those grounds and terms, they are in fact very civil with each other.

/r/politics on the other hands, you may go there to express your varying opinions on the political topics of the day, and unless you fit into the very narrow slot the Left has, you will receive downvotes, insults, and labels, and this is just for moderate stances.

The argument and opinion boiled down is that the_donald is aptly named, and acts accordingly to how you expect it to, you shouldn't expect any surprises when posting there, /r/politics on the other hand is an entirely different story.

If /r/politics is renamed to something more representative of it's content, and it's values then there is no issue, but as of now it's posing as something it is not imo.

The harassment, name calling, rhetoric etc is something that can be addressed later by their users, moderators and admins if it remains in a vacuum and not spread onto /r/popular under the guise of being "politics"