Extreme polarisation will be America’s undoing – whatever the results of the election

Whoever you blame for this trend, demonising rhetoric is in danger of poisoning society. I have seen that play out in the Middle East in severe ways, writes Bel Trew

Trump supporters at a rally held by the president in Michigan yesterday (Getty)

This week a controversial tweet kept reappearing up in my timeline.  

It contained two images side by side: a photo of a flag-bedecked motorcade of Trump supporters rolling through the Texas countryside next to a photo of Isis jihadi, waving Kalashnikovs on top of pick-up trucks, driving away from Raqqa.  

“See the difference? Me neither,” quipped the author of the tweet, a columnist in Boston.