A friend of mine said that once Biden is elected, things will be OK. He and I almost had a parting of our ways over that. Yes, things will improve with Biden, but this division capitalized on by Trump (Trump did not invent it), is not going away. Biden may be a 2% solution and a temporary one at that to a problem that is 90% out of control. Basically, not a solution, but just a brief pause. And I'm not sure if it will be a pause. Trump supporters (can you say, "Republicans,") are not likely to put down their weapons and become model citizens. The fact is they don't like America as it always was, and have no need to end their acts of sedition. They are itching for a fight, and have been for 50 years. When you own that many assault rifles, there comes a time when gun nuts will want to put them to their intended purpose. Rebellions will be put down, but at a great cost.
The left sees Trump as the problem. The right sees him as the solution. The right sees Biden, who was the farthest right presidential contender of the Democratic Party in 2020, as the worst possible president we could have. If Bernie would have won the nomination, they would see him as the worst. They see the voting system and democracy as something like an ultra left conspiracy that can only be fixed by authoritarian force. I'm not implying that Bernie could fix things that Biden won't. Somethings he could fix with a more liberal Congress, but no one can fix the fundamental problem of America. You can't fix stupid.
The media could help by not presenting conspiracy theories and lies as news, and I think the biggest purveyors of dangerous nonsense are trying to do something about it, but they talk about banning misinformation until after the inauguration, as if their real desire is to get back to collecting revenue. It seems like they don't quite understand the need for a paradigm shift that needs to last for more than one election cycle.
