But this is not a problem of democracy. It is a problem of radicalisation. Everything is fine as long as all sides are confident that the other side consists-despite disagreement-of decent people. Up until recently it was quite rare in the west for an election outcome to instil an end-of-days kind of fear in 50%+ of a country's population. It happened in the US and it may also happen in a lot of European countries soon, where what we would have called fascism in the good old days, is on a steady rise.
>Up until recently it was quite rare in the west for an election outcome to instil an end-of-days kind of fear in 50%+ of a country's population.
That fear was based on falsehoods and instilled deliberately. It has more to do with a splintering media that allows people to marinate in their own biases than a change in US political institutions.
With respect, that is BS. Non-American media has looked at the US election with less wailing and nashing of teeth than the US media, yet those journalists also have not been shy of talking about a new Fascism growing in the US. The media has not created Trump's statements nor his transition team appointments.
I only can tell about german media. Their reporting was just as partisan (all for Hillary) as the "mainstream" U.S. media. It was less about giving the facts then about creating a sentiment.
