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Is Trump Especially Divisive? – HotAir

It depends on what you mean. Certainly, he trolls a lot of people on the left, and he certainly triggers an abnormally large number of liberals who find his style of politics grossly offensive. 





But if you listen to what he says carefully, in almost every case of Trump’s “divisive” and trolling statements about his domestic political adversaries, he is punching at people with cultural or political clout, not average Democrats. He makes fun of prominent celebrities, politicians, and media figures, but to the best of my recollection, he does not target the average member of the Democratic Party. 

Perhaps that is why Trump has been building a coalition that includes a large number of former Democrats who now…

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