{"id":545786,"date":"2025-11-03T07:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/545786\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:31:27","slug":"it-feels-dangerously-divided-now-there-is-political-sectarianism-belfast-journalist-on-20-years-working-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/545786\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It feels dangerously divided now. There is political sectarianism\u2019: Belfast journalist on 20 years working in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Niall Stanage has been based in America for more than two decades. Here he tells us what he thinks about Trump 2.0.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reporting from the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 2024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cbb37e5e-c8d7-460d-ba17-981115dbb246.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Reporting from the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Northern Irish journalist Niall Stanage first arrived in the United States in late 2003, George W Bush was a president navigating a post-9\/11 nation in the midst of his \u2018war on terror\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Obviously there was a lot of opposition to him, primarily rooted in opposition to the Iraq War, but for other reasons as well. But that was still, I would say, opposition within the normal parameters of politics,\u201d he tells the Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niall Stanage has been based in America for more than two decades. Here he tells us what he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,35278,10470,2175,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-545786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-gillian-halliday","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-kamala-harris","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115484602614347201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}