The comparisons to Northern Ireland are pretty chilling - exactly how I felt when I visited there a few years back.
It wasn't the majority of 'good' Protestants or 'good' Catholics who caused all the issues. It was the extremists on both sides who took to gangster tactics to drive wedges between the vast majority.
During that visit, it was the early stages of the Trump/never Trump division but I do recall mentioning it to Mrs. Throbber v2.0 - standing in front of barbed wire fences and gates (which still close at night) - that this could be the US in a few years.
And when some dipshit like Joe Biden shakes his fist like Mussolini and labels his political opponents as dangerous extremists, he's just another Belfast IRA thug throwing a molotov cocktail to incite a response.
Not Nebraska classy.