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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 31. I have never seen sustained political resistance and opposition like this towards a president before in my life that I can remember.

[b]Is there a comparison in modern history?[/b] [/quote]

The only good answer is NO.

The people making Kent State or LBJ or Nixon or Reagan or whoever out to be as big or bigger are clueless.

This is a deeper and potentially much more serious rift in the society. You have to go back to at least the 1930s of perhaps the 1860s to get as serious a fissure, one that basically involves the most entrenched in society coming under (potentially fatal for their position) attack.

One bit of intuition: the 2008 financial crisis happened, in no small measure, because basically everyone who remembered the period from the 1929 stock/property market collapse and the Great Depression, was dead by the 2003-2008 period. This current fissure is happening because no one who remembers the elite under threat in this country, which last happened in the 1930s, is alive. For better or for worse, the Trump administration represents a challenge to many of the elite sectors in society and that is what drives the most intense opposition.
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Do you really think the country wasn't completely splintered during the Civil Rights era?  Maybe it was suppressed more than it is today.  But that was a really violent time for people of color and their white supporters.[/quote]

Completely splintered? I'm not sure. I that get certain sections were strained. But the existential fight between elite factions now looks massively worse in comparison.

How did George Wallace's relatively more insider Presidential Campaigns do by comparison with Trump's? [/quote]

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