You can’t have unity with people who want you dead
There really was not that much antipathy between the Democrat party and Donald J. Trump years ago, and if the Clintons had not horned in in the 1992 election with their surprise elevation to the White House, Trump no doubt would have thrown his hat in the ring in 1996, as the DEMOCRAT nominee, with a very good probability that he would have won it then, as a much younger man than he was in 2016.
you said it.