The hallmark of Trumpism is viewing political opposition as an enemy, as people who are all "evil" not just of a different mind.
George Washington LEFT office for the good of the Republic, he said this:
"“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”
His successor, John Adams, said this:
"a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”"
Similar comments are posted here often by DH.
Interestingly, Jefferson's view was that the world was two parties and that view is particularly interesting TODAY because the two groups he described overlap now:
"men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties. 1. those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2dly those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them cherish and consider them as the most honest & safe, altho’ not the most wise depository of the public interests."
UYOU CAN SEE THIS ASA HE GOES ON TO DESCRIBE THW TWO GROUPS HISTORICALLY:
"all them therefore liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, whigs and tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats or by whatever name you please; they are the same parties still and pursue the same object."
THE DIVIDER THERE, AT LEAST IN MODERN TIMES, IS LARGELY RACE/CLASS.
either way, something is likely about to break.
