I believe that authoritarians rely on this. You need a divided populace and I mean a REALLY divided one like we have now in order to ascend to the highest position of power.
So here we are with millions of people who are about to get four years of messing around and find out moments they did not believe would be coming their way. Four years of prices on goods climbing ever higher and a populace that will continue to divide further apart. This is how authoritarians and their underlings gain and latch onto power. I can look at this from the perspective of a white male and I could say that “I’m white so the worst of it will not come to me solely because of that.” That part will prove itself to be true. However, the part of me that realizes a whole bunch of people got taken in and hoodwinked with false promises and, at best, half truths will be the ones affected the most. That part is not cool, but here we are. Sometimes you have to learn hard lessons and they will come at the expense of the person you voted for that does not care one iota about you nor did they ever.