Originally a comment by iknklast on Trump whipped the crowd into fevered chants.

I will agree with Trump on one thing: he did not cause the divisions in the country. It was already existing divisions that he exploited to get elected. It was already existing divisions that led to so many Democrats not voting because they didn’t get the candidate they wanted.

It was divisions in the country that erected Confederate statues to clutter the landscape. It was divisions in the country that insisted on flying the Confederate flag, no I’m not a racist I just value my heritage, blah blah blah. It was divisions in the country that led to the bombing of abortion clinics and the killing of George Tiller. It was divisions in the country that led to the rise of the Tea Party because they couldn’t handle a president who wasn’t lily white. It was divisions in the country that led to the need for Affirmative Action and Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter and the Rainbow Coalition. It was divisions in the country that led to the death of Harvey Milk and Matthew Shepherd.

Every country has divisions; why does our country feel the need to take these to the point of death and destruction so very often? And to the election of an illiterate toddler in a man’s body to be head of the most powerful military force in the world?

For Trump, we know when he says we need to unite, he just means we all need to worship him, not criticize him.