The U.S. Has Never Felt This Divided. History Suggests Otherwise.
b'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\\u2019s never been so ideologically divided. But historians say that Americans have always been deeply split on major policy issues -- it\\u2019s just that those splits haven\\u2019t fallen along partisan lines as sharply as they do today. We\\u2019ll look at past instances of U.S. electoral and political strife to help understand and address today\\u2019s disunity.'