A sea of angry emotion pulled back from a more moderate shore.
The riptide grew stronger and the under tow of political pragmatism washed away into unintelligible depths. This is not a natural disaster like hurricanes Harvey and Irma and now Marie. Their damage is terrible but in many cases fixable. You can rebuild physical structures far more easily than the egregious effects of amoral beliefs unleashed on a nation, ideologies that cling like sea urchins to a desperate collective consciousness. The tidal wave of populism has crashed into our shores of democracy, with a force that could bring irreparable harm.
There is no quick fix to changing peoples minds from believing in the absurd or rehabilitating innate prejudices that now have been given airtime to breathe. The United States since no time since the Civil War has been so ostentatiously divided. The new name for description of what is happening in this country is "The cold civil war." How long will it take when the word cold is replaced with a more destructive characterization?