In a recent item at American Greatness, Angelo Codevilla acknowledges that America is divided beyond the possibility of reconciliation.
[R]estoring anything like the Founders’ United States of America is out of the question. Constitutional conservatism on behalf of a country a large part of which is absorbed in revolutionary identity; that rejects the dictionary definition of words; that rejects common citizenship, is impossible. Not even winning a bloody civil war against the ruling class could accomplish such a thing.
This echoes what I wrote a month ago:
Does all this talk of civil war seem overheated? Ask yourself: looking at the current chasm in American politics, the fundamentally incompatible visions of America the two sides hold, the degree of dehumanizing hatred they show for each other, the bloody damage already done, and the implacable fury with which they grapple for every atom of power, can we imagine some way forward in which the Right and Left just “bury the hatchet” and “hug it out”?
Of course not. This fight continues, and intensifies, until either one side is destroyed, or we work out some kind of divorce.
Mr. Codevilla’s essay is short, and sharp. Read it here.
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The Left is rapidly descending into utter madness and derangement with each passing day. These Congressional “hearings” aren’t helping them any. We on the Right keep the pressure on and the Left will turn on itself with a nagging suspicion that some in their ranks are not sufficiently ‘outraged’ or worse, not ideologically ‘pure’ enough.