from the moment that george w. bush 43 was elected in 2000. understandably, it was a contested election, a lot of people thought he was in the legitimate president. president trump is to a large extent a private product of to this point. instead of trying to bring those sides together, he s only further dividing. i think if we want to restore civility, we need to start from the top and that needs to come from the president of the united states. chris: matt? i think this is larger than trump. one thing that is worrisome to me is that the polarization, i don t think most americans polarized but in the political class it s taking on a geographical dimension. if you look at those election results, we saw suburbs voting like suburbs whether they were the north or the south. we saw several areas voting like rural areas whether
from the moment that george w. bush 43 was elected in 2000. understandably, it was a contested election, a lot of people thought he was in the legitimate president. president trump is to a large extent a private product of to this point. instead of trying to bring those sides together, he s only further dividing. i think if we want to restore civility, we need to start from the top and that needs to come from the president of the united states. chris: matt? i think this is larger than trump. one thing that is worrisome to me is that the polarization, i don t think most americans polarized but in the political class it s taking on a geographical dimension. if you look at those election results, we saw suburbs voting like suburbs whether they were the north or the south. we saw several areas voting like rural areas whether
from the moment that george w. bush 43 was elected in 2000. understandably, it was a contested election, a lot of people thought he was in the legitimate president. president trump is to a large extent a private product of to this point. instead of trying to bring those sides together, he s only further dividing. i think if we want to restore civility, we need to start from the top and that needs to come from the president of the united states. chris: matt? i think this is larger than trump. one thing that is worrisome to me is that the polarization, i don t think most americans polarized but in the political class it s taking on a geographical dimension. if you look at those election results, we saw suburbs voting like suburbs whether they were the north or the south. we saw several areas voting like rural areas whether