The U.S. Has Never Felt This Divided. History Suggests Otherwise.

As Americans draw political battle lines over everything from
mask-wearing to immigration policy to post-election
ballot-counting, it can feel as if the nation’s never been so
ideologically divided. But historians say that Americans have
always been deeply split on major policy issues -- it’s just that
those splits haven’t fallen along partisan lines as sharply as they
do today. We’ll look at past instances of U.S. electoral and
political strife to help understand and address today’s disunity.