Gilets Jaunes, January 6, Toulouse, France: " Policemen, you are the people, rejoin your family." Batard Patrick/Press Association. All rights reserved.
During the night of the US midterm elections, I switched on CNN International for the first time in a year, and no longer found a newsroom but rather something that looked like a military headquarters. Us against the president – the president against us.
In Sweden, almost all parties, media and people in general, support the Democrats. Thus it took me almost a whole day to disentangle news reports and subjective analyses, romantic reviews of Barack Obama and, not least, Trump's self-assured victory rhetoric, before I dared to form my own opinion on how the election actually turned out. The polarization is not just political, it permeates the whole of society, and, just like in a war zone, it's soon hard to trust anyone.
