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During the 2016 presidential campaign Donald Trump employed school-yard name-calling to the delight of his followers and disgust of opponents. Hillary Clinton changed course from stressing policy initiatives to attacking Trump as unfit to be President. Instead of following Michelle Obama's dictum of, "When they go low, we go high," the 2016 campaigns super-charged the trend of hyper-partisanship and toxic politics. But the 2020 mid-term election results may be evidence that US voters want to reverse that trend.
"Polarized in the Time of Trump" provides a historical perspective of political polarization in the US. Truth and decency are not new victims in US politics. Trump's Twitter storms and attacks against the media are current versions of an old playbook. American icons such as Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln engaged in dirty tricks comparable to Richard Nixon's. But Jeff Rasley makes the case with expert testimony and statistical data that social media is the most dangerous weapon ever used to mislead voters with fake news and to intensify ideological extremism and political polarization.
Attacks through social media by Putin, the Chinese, and weaponized bots pose tremendous risks to the democratic process. However, an experiment Rasley performed in Facebook opens an avenue to reverse the trend through depolarizing civil conversation.

Jeff Rasley supervised the future Vice President, Mike Pence, as a legal intern. The Postscript in "Polarized " explains why the firm did not hire Pence.

Rasley is also the author of 9 other books, including Godless - Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs, False Prophet, a legal thriller set in Indianapolis, and Bringing Progress to Paradise, a memoir about adventure and philanthropy in the Nepal Himalayas.