It is crystal clear that our nation's people divided themselves into a handful of groups with hate of something as the only common bond. Obama wasn't divisive, that divisiveness was the work of Congressional investigative committees whose goal was not to find truth, but merely to broadcast vile innuendo; and of the right-wing media whose goal was only advertising sponsorship money with which to line their cynical pockets.

Trump's strategy was to divide and conquer, and his genius was in appealing to the anger of bigots who felt themselves dispossessed of what they believed was their rightful place at the top of a mountain of people different in skin color, religion or ethnicity. Our nation is now rumbling to a new apartheid with the violence that accompanies dispossession of the rights of one people by another people. Yet Trump has found a way to get his followers to blame the victims of that dispossession, and it wasn't hard to do, they were waiting for their dark messiah to appear.