The Civil War would like to have a chat.I dont believe the country has ever been so divided. You have two sets of people who see the same exact thing in completely different ways. Has this always been the case? Maybe, to some extent. This current division is destabilizing. Probably not that detrimental, in the big picture, but who knows.
Certainly in my lifetime ('73-present), this is about as bad as things have been, politically. That is not a reflection of who sits behind the Resolute Desk, rather, who sits behind the Resolute Desk is a reflection of that divide. The people I know who were alive (and old enough to remember) in the late 60s have almost all said our current state is very reminiscent of that time. That was a time of much greater public discord and actual violence than what we see today, but it's not like it just up and one day was like that.