It seems not a day goes by in the Trump Era without the media mentioning that we live in a “divided nation” amid “not normal” times. Just two weeks ago, one MSNBC host even warned that the attorney general’s remarks on the Mueller investigation were “so potentially dangerous to the institutions of law and justice that we don’t want to air it without a disclaimer: What you’re about to hear … is not normal.” To what degree are these sentiments a product of Trump presidency?
Measuring Our 'Not Normal' and 'Divisive' Times
![](https://blog.gdeltproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-rcp-not-normal-divisive-times-1024x395.png)