The division currently seen in America doesn't happen in countries that serve the people and where the people can be assured of fair value returned for their contribution to the society. Trump rose from relative political obscurity to the most powerful position in the country because Americans have been betrayed by their government and were desperate.

I am far from being a Trump supporter and I think he is a monster, but he isn't alone in his ability to inflict evil on the people from his position. It wasn't Trump that oversaw the decline of the middle class American over decades or that forced an evil and corrupt healthcare system on them to further pad the pockets of the political class. It wasn't his fault that the livelihoods of Americans were fodder for the ruling class to hold over them in exchange for their fealty, even when that fealty became deadly in the pandemic.

Trump should be condemned and punished in the harshest fashion available under our laws, but he shouldn't be made to carry the blame by himself. He was simply a symptom of the disease of neoliberalism that America has suffered from for several decades. Others will rise in his place, perhaps more adept at manipulating the people, if we don't recognize and fix the many social and economic problems the people face and that create the anger we saw manifested at the Capital.