I'm sorry, CAELew, but your response seems to be a perfect illustration of the point. If you were a politician, I would read your comment and accept it as the type of overstatement typical of that profession. I presume that you are unable to see the factual error in " promised decimation of critical programs like Medicaid, health care, environmental protections, and even national monuments"? 

President Trump has never promised to decimate Medicaid, that I know of. Decimate healthcare? He wants to replace the ACA with a better solution, but not decimate. Same with the environment and national monuments. Don't you see that by overstating your criticism, you add to the problem and cause further division?

sincerely ... Dave