That’s a good question, one that our own Dennis Romboy looked to answer in his latest report. The United States has to choose between some of the most divisive candidates in recent history, which has political experts worried.
“It doesn’t help that the campaign has been the most angry campaign that I can recall in my 53 years of life,” Steve Kroes, who heads the Utah Foundation, told Romboy. “It’s going to leave a lingering bad taste in the mouth of whichever party loses.”No matter who wins, experts told Romboy, the chosen candidate will enter into the White House with a divided nation, which won’t make it easier for him or her to govern.
But Natalie Gochnour, director of the Kem C. Gardner Public Policy Institute at the University of Utah, told Romboy that Americans need to find a way to unite after the election.
“We have to ask the question, What is it that will bind us together or what will heal our wound? Certainly, a crisis can do that. But we don’t have to have a crisis to do that. I would hope that it would be some inspired leadership,” Gochnour said.
