The disuniting of the United States?

There is a deep ideological economic divide between Democrats and Republicans for the first time since the Great Depression

For most of January and February I was in Los Angles, California. This is the centre of the “Trump resistance” and California played a significant role in the Democrats winning control of the House of Representatives. In his State of the Union address, President Trump gave an emollient account of the US’ economic progress — with a higher economic growth rate, the lower unemployment rate for African Americans and Hispanics; the benefits from deregulation and the tax cuts (but not the failure to deal with the burgeoning fiscal deficit) — and his foreign policy successes. But, this was met by