Carl Bernstein, an investigative journalist, said in a recent interview that American democracy faced enormous challenges before Donald Trump took office, but that the former president "ignited" a "cold civil war" in the country.
Bernstein told The Guardian that the United States had not been functioning well for a long time. He said it would take an event to unify the country.
He told the news outlet that the country had been in a "cold civil war" for over 25 years. "We're not going to go back from this place unless there's a great event that brings people together."
He said that reporters make mistakes when they look at the country. This is a huge cultural shift. About half of the people who voted for Trump think Christianity is being taken away from them, according to the surveys.
Bernstein, who became a household name in the 1970s for his Watergate investigative reporting alongside fellow journalist Bob Woodward, noted that Trump's base is more expansive than many of the popular depictions.
The idea that the Trump base is made up of a small group of white men with guns? Bullshit. He told The Guardian that the movement included misogynistic women, racists, and educated people in cities and suburbs.
The movement is against liberalism and what the Democratic party has come to represent. It's about people's idea of what the United States should be. The movement embraces American neo-fascism which Trump represents.
Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2 million votes, despite Trump's victory in the Electoral College.
In a high-turnout, high-stakes election four years later, now- President Joe Biden won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. While Biden received over 81 million votes, Trump received more than 74 million.
Even after the January 6 insurrection, which saw many of the former president's supporters rally against the certification of Biden's, Biden and many leading Democrats warned of the perils of Trump and his in-your-face style of politics.
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