“Even if our comparitive losses in the Revolution were only around 2.5 million (extrapolated from 25,000) that is still around 5 times our 1/2 million lost in WW2.”
The 25,000 would represent about 1% of the total colonial population of the time, of whom about 1/3 were loyalists, 1/3 were anti-loyalists, pro-independence, and 1/3 who waited to see how the war turned out before picking a side. That’s a sizeable chunk of dead anyway you look at it. Using that 1% standard today, we’d suffer 3.3 million dead under a similar scenario.
Like then, the US is still divided into 3 large chunks, one devoted to Trump, another loyal Democrats, and the third group scattered all over the ideological map.