AI> >> He made America hate again.
 AI> 
 AI> > The fault in this logic is believing the divide between Americans starte
 AI> > with Trump.  It actually started before he even decided to run for
 AI> > President.
 AI> 
 AI> He's taken it to a whole new level.

I have to agree here. Asterisk.

The shift in culture has gone to the point of allowing giant F-bomb FJB flags to be flown on the back of pick-up trucks, and that somehow not really being considered offensive.

He's leveraging and popularizing that hate, for sure. I won't go so far as to say he's the source, but he's certainly been a catalyst for a surge in vitriol and an unwillingness to have open-minded civil discourse.

When I was in my 30s, I took a few courses at a local community college. On occasion, I (as a then hardcore Libertarian) would sit for some incredible discussions with a liberal sociology professor and a conservative technology instructor over lunch. And somehow we easily managed to maintain positive interpersonal relationships.

Interactions like that now seem to have gone the way of the Woolly Mammoth.

RS

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