who can unify the country?

[tosk]

sure as hell ain't trump. sure as hell wasn't obama or clinton. Is there anyone on the horizon?

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

Basically no one. the country is far too polarized.

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So much unifying that the country repeals the 22nd amendment.

[Bidenworth2020]

i know this sounds contradictory, but we need a unpopular president without a base like Trump

[Holmes]

Sherrod Brown.

[Liberalrocks]

Basically no one. the country is far too polarized.

[White Trash]

Flawless, beautiful JBE.

[beaver2.0]

Young, charismatic, from lower middle class, served in Iraq, law degree, served in the House.  Centrist policies, protectionist.

[Former President tack50]

Nothing unites a country like a common enemy, so I guess Kim Jong Un would be a good choice

Kim Jong Un for president!

[mgop]

Heidi Heitkamp

[Rookie Yinzer]

No one. Polarization and the ability to choose your news sources through social media have made it impossible. The most someone can unify is their side plus people who are not ideological and ambivalent about politics.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Roy Cooper or Brian Sandoval seem like they'd be pretty effective at it, and that's why neither will ever be President.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

Roy Cooper or Brian Sandoval seem like they'd be pretty effective at it, and that's why neither will ever be President.

And why exactly would these two be able to unify the country?

[mvd10]

Nobody. Republicans will always find reasons to hate Democrats and vice versa.

[The Mikado]

"Unify the country" isn't really even a desirable outside of as a talking point. It's an impossible condition because no president can or has done that in the absence of a foreign threat for people to rally against (which FDR had in the latter part of his administration, for example). FDR was deeply divisive in the first half of his administration, but he was divisive on a ~60/40 fault line in he was on the larger side of, which isn't nationally-unifying, but is a recipe for highly effective governing.

I'd prefer partisan-but-winning early FDR to non-partisan-and-ignoring-domestic-politics late FDR.

[IceSpear]

Nobody (sane)

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Steve Bullock

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Roy Cooper or Brian Sandoval seem like they'd be pretty effective at it, and that's why neither will ever be President.

And why exactly would these two be able to unify the country?

Sandoval has had eight years to oversee a troubled, divided state with nasty partisanship wars, and has maintained a rock-solid approval rating while working towards bipartisan reforms. Cooper seems to be working towards the same style of government.

Would they be able to unite the country? No, that's not a thing. Would they work us a little closer to that point? Probably.

[CatoMinor]

I imagine some heroic unifying  figure will rise up through the radioactive  post apocalyptic ashes of what was once the planet after Trump inevitably does something dumb enough to trigger nuclear war.

[krazen1211]

The Republican party unified the country and won all the elections. Right now we just have handful of very loud whining losers who have trouble accepting the outcome of the 2014 and 2016 elections.

[SNJ1985]

Instead of trying to unify two halves of a population that want nothing to do with each other, maybe we should be looking at splitting the country into two or more sovereign states.

[White Trash]

Instead of trying to unify two halves of a population that want nothing to do with each other, maybe we should be looking at splitting the country into two or more sovereign states.

How about fifty?

[daveosupremo]

Young, charismatic, from lower middle class, served in Iraq, law degree, served in the House.  Centrist policies, protectionist.

Tom Cotton?

[Sir Mohamed]

Basically no one. the country is far too polarized.

Agreed.

Though that also depends on what the definition of "unify"is. An approval rating of over 60% is possible.

[JosephMI]

No one can. In our age of biased, partisan news and media, one side will find anything and everything to unleash on a candidate or President. It's sad really. Polarizing the "other" side is good for business, unfortunately. Dr. Martin Luther King could have run and the opposing side's leaning media sources would have pummelled him.