![]() ![]() It is all very alarming - but that does not put us minutes away from Fort Sumter. In both periods, highly partisan media inflamed passions, sometimes brazenly peddling “fake news” and at both stages, the country was recovering from a severe financial crisis. At both times, the country divided geographically, with more urban and educated regions leaning one way and more rural and less educated regions the other. Both periods saw extreme polarization over issues of intense economic and emotional importance. There are certainly some striking similarities between the American political scene in the late 2010s and that of the late 1850s. Similarities, differences and broad patterns How a divided Congress could defy gridlock ![]()
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