Perhaps the last time Americans experienced such internal animus towards each other was 1860. Back then, racial superiority was the divider, taught in schools and churches and handed down generationally as the norm. John Brown and abolitionists fought against the injustice of slavery before the Civil War which tore families apart. Other countries experienced Civil Wars (Russia, England, post-WWI Europe, Ireland), but only the US Civil War was over race. South Africa escaped apartheid without a race war. Years of rightwing radio, Fox News, and manipulative religious leaders have brought the same level of hatred back to America, led by Trumpf. So, today's MAGA mentality is tearing families apart, creating dysfunction where it shouldn't be, perhaps like it was in 1860.