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    Why Democrats share the blame for the rise of Donald Trump | Robert Reich

    I was part of a Democratic administration that failed to fix a rigged system – I know our current president is a symptom of our disunion, not its only cause
    by Robert Reich Feb 02, 2020 6 minutes
    Donald Trump speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

    An impeached president who is up for re-election will this week deliver a State of the Union address to the most divided union in living memory.

    But why are we so divided? We’re not fighting a hugely unpopular war on the scale of Vietnam. We’re not in a deep economic crisis like the Great Depression. Yes, we disagree about guns, gays, abortion and immigration, but we’ve disagreed about them for decades. Why are we so divided now?

    Part of the answer is Trump himself. The Great Divider knows how to pit native-born Americans against immigrants, the working class against the poor, whites against blacks and Latinos, evangelicals against secularists, keeping almost everyone stirred up by vilifying, disparaging, denouncing, defaming and accusing others of the worst. Trump thrives off disruption and division.

    But that begs the question of why we have been so ready to be divided by Trump. The answer derives in large part from what has happened to wealth and power.

    In the fall of 2015, I visited Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Missouri and North Carolina, for a research project on the changing nature

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