"If you read the history, you won't be surprised," Ronstadt told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "It's exactly the same." America has always known political polarization. But now the divide is driven more by hatred of the other side than devotion to one's own. Trump, experts say, has been uniquely effective in making the American political divide more about him, rather than the policies or ideas he espouses. "Trump supporters don't seem to support Trump so much for his policies as for the person they perceive him to be," says Susan Benesch, founder of the Dangerous Speech Project. "People who oppose Trump oppose him not just for his policies but for the person they see him to be.
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Susan Milligan, Senior Politics Writer
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https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-01-03/2020-the-year-that-hate-of-trump-democrats-and-each-other-fueled-america
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