If Trump is defeated in November, will the amount of anger, hostility, and division decrease?

[Obama24]

Back in 2015, when the idea of a Trump presidency was a punchline, life, I would say was pretty good. The Obama recovery was finally kicking into high gear. There were still lingering issues of division between the races, but people generally speaking got along. There was no gender war that I can remember going on. I also don't really remember your average Republican or Democrat hating each other as much as they do today. There have always been hyper-partisan individuals, but I'm talking about the average person.

Trump pretty much destroyed the fabric of American society. How many thousands upon thousands of families, friendships, relationships ripped apart over this one man? I would say he's even broken down the concept of family, and friendships. We are a much more insular society now than we were in 2015 - people are choosing to stick to their own, to be more among those that agree with them, and are shutting themselves away from disagreement; each falling into their own echo chambers; increasingly disconnected from one another.

Across every line one can possibly consider, people are divided. Men against women. Black against White. Jew against Muslim. The religious against new scapegoats.

I mourn the world that I remember in 2015. Obama's presidency represented, if nothing else, a ray of hope that we might go forward toward the future, together as one people; that, the election of a Black man with a foreign sounding name showed America had begun to move beyond its old hatreds and its old animosities. And then came Trump and with the help of social media, he reopened all old wounds, created new ones, and to use his words, "poisoned the blood" of this country so that so many stand against one another.

Where does it end? Can it end?

If this vile man is defeated in November, can we ever hope in the coming decades to come together again? To trust one another more again? To look upon each other without so much suspicion, to remove the walls that Trump (and social media) have helped us put up against one another?