With Election Day in our rearview mirrors and Inauguration Day around the corner, no matter where you sit in the world, I think we can all agree that the showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, short though it was, ranks up there with one of the most divisive in U.S. history. And, mind you, Americans are no strangers to divisive elections.
The American people are accustomed to joining their preferred candidate on the battlefields of social media and volunteering for in-person debates... When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
Subsequent elections between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden in 1876 along with the ones between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000 and 2016's Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump showdowns, continued the tradition of contentious elections.
Whether it was the media inciting rage and divisiveness or the candidates and their parties themselves driving things, the American people have engaged deeply, likening political rivalries to sports fanfare, often with collateral damage.
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