I'm sure there are historical comparisons to where we are right now, and my guess is that what followed those times wasn't good.
Are you sure
"night of the broken glass" is one? Or is this comparison in itself an example of extremism?
No, I'm talking about a situation in which political divisions became so deep that they even saturated the culture and turned citizens against each other. I guess the time before our Civil War would be the most obvious example, but slavery was a far more tangible and specific issue than this.
Holy crap, come to think of it, maybe a more appropriate parallel might be be Sunni vs.Shia.
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