Trump is divisive for sure. Certainly he traffics in it and it is part of a political strategy that works for him. That and he's incapable of empathy for those that are not his sycophants. Certainly, his inability to reach half the country is a major part of his failure as a president. He's had hard challenges, a pandemic that is the worst we've seen and tbh, I don't think it matters who was president, it was always going to be a mess.
But I do think the left is just as guilty with the divisiveness. Heck, people on this forum say things more outrageous than Trump. It's become the norm for political discourse. And Dems traffic on divisiveness just like Trump. The politicians are better at playing the game of being above the fray, but they traffic in it for sure. They love the chaos because they can blame it on Trump. And Trump loves it because he can use it against democrats. And unfortunately, the result is that we all have to deal with the unrest and the cost of violence, property destruction, and uncertainty of where this is all going. I do think some of it is a reaction to COVID. I think COVID had a real mental impact on people and has made people more wreckless in their interactions. But I'm almost tuned out of politics because it is so divided on both sides that it seems like no one really cares about fixing anything. I guess it's always kind of been that way, but it's usually been trafficked in other issues, like health care or taxes, but now it's civil unrest and that is more dangerous and it feels like we are headed to some kind of civil war.