@divegeestersaid You would like to think so but I’m not so sure now.
Trump bided his time before running for election, I feel he was waiting for the right moment when he could appeal to an large enough right wing base, which was after the paranoia of the Obama administration. This paranoia and racial hatred is now steaming under pressure in the US and Trump has been the lightening rod ...[text shortened]... possessed by Satan. This is obviously not a good way to think and not one which is easily reversed.
The great American experiment in self-government may yet fail. The events of the past four years demonstrated how fragile democracy is, how easy it is for one determined demagogue and his 'facilitators' to corrupt and damage it. As A.N. Whitehead once observed, great advances in civilisation all but wreck the nations in which they occur.
@divegeestersaid Brexit may have looked similar, albeit much lesser scale in terms of protests and violence, but Brexit was not driven by a permanent broad political divide, it was driven by a singular ideological one, perceived sovereignty and political independence, compounded by an apparent attempt to scupper and reverse a democratically made decision. However flawed it was in its exec ...[text shortened]... onal mindsets and the long term political architecture.
Edit: civil war, not war of independence.
What a load of old cobblers.
Brexit was driven by lies and disinformation over many years by the Telegraph,Daily Mail and others.