A University of Minnesota professor is looking to diffuse the hostility provoked by Donald Trump’s election by getting partisans to actually listen to one another.
Professor William Doherty recently completed his One America Bus Tour in conjunction with an organization known as “Better Angels,” a “bipartisan network of leaders and organizations whose vision is to reunite America” that was formed in response to the 2016 election in an effort to “reunite the country.”
While Doherty has long been aware of the growing hostility towards members of the opposing political party, he told The Minnesota Daily that the divisiveness evident in the wake of Trump’s election is “unprecedented in my lifetime.”
The tour wound its way through East coast from July 4-24, stopping in several states to host “community workshops” with both Trump supporters and Clinton supporters.