New national motto: You’re wrong, I’m right
A pilot on a recent United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, had to play peacemaker when a political fight erupted aboard his plane. A young mother who snapped a post-election selfie with Hillary Clinton said she received death threats when her picture went viral. Protestors spray-painted: “Your vote was a hate crime” on the Jefferson Davis Monument in Richmond, Va. In the wake of one of the most divisive elections in history, political polarization in the U.S. appears to be at an all-time high. The rift between blue states and red states is well documented, but analysts increasingly point to widening conflict within those states, divides that often run along ethnic, economic, and racial lines. So how, as a nation, do we reach out and move forward in a country that seems to have been ripped in two? It’s going to be tough and it’s going to take time, according...