Donald Trump’s people and policies have ferociously divided communities

Trying to prove a point to someone who deals in ‘alternative facts’ is like trying to knit an Aran sweater out of overcooked spaghetti, writes Terry Prone.

It started when one of the firefighters was called in to her captain’s office.

“Need you to clean out the three bedrooms,” he told her. She told him he had to be kidding. She cleaned the bedroom she used every time she used it. But clean out the bedrooms used by those other filthy colleagues? No. Not a chance.