I was told by a Trump supporter to stay out of America because I don’t support Trump.
Some of them yearn for a police state.
Trumpmerica. Love it or you’re a loser.
Some, I say some, Trump supporters remind me of the zombies that followed Obama around during his election campaigns.
Sad, some are gnawing their way across this board.
Yeah I had one threaten me with deportation for my un-Trumpsmanlike thoughts and I have roots in this country going back to the mid 1600s.
Better call a whammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbulance.
We've had aggressive rhetoric fired with impunity incessantly for decades, including plenty of anti-white, anti-male, anti-religion, anti-'traditional’ (however that is defined). That which was defined as politically correct, or palatable to self-defined ‘progressives’ was tolerated, and this was a mistake. All aggression, verbal or non-verbal, leads eventually to counter-aggression, and we are now seeing the expected and inevitable backlash to suppressed and often understandable resentment.
It's been coming from all directions for quite awhile now, and has very deep roots in the identity politics that has been used very successfully by self-interested politicians who are more than willing to fuel racial, class, gender, and other divisions in order to create a winning coalition for themselves. In my experience, in my lifetime so far, this has almost always come from the pseudo-progressive left. What they've done is akin to creating unstable fault lines beneath the surface of society, and this is very dangerous.
Also unfortunate is that instead of finally getting our collective heads out of the sand, we have responses like Haley's that just speak in generalities about those aspects of ourselves and our society that are virtuous and that we should embrace, but gloss over the reasons why there is so much divisiveness. In the meantime, over on the left, Hillary is talking again about ‘taxing the rich’, and Bernie Sanders is also pushing divisive politics - although with a ‘kinder and gentler’ persona.
So, IMHO, irrespective of liking or not liking Trump, pinning the moniker of ‘divisiveness’ on him while ignoring the incredibly divisive politics that have led us to where we are over many decades is a sad joke. Incidentally, the fact that Haley, a woman and the child of immigrants from India, was elected governor of one of the southern states of the US in a political party that has been perpetually characterized by the left as representing bigoted white males speaks volumes.