We have come a long way from Barack Obama’s debut on the national stage at the 2004 Democratic convention, when he assured the delegates, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.”
At last year’s virtual Democratic convention, Michelle Obama corrected the record. “We live in a deeply divided nation,” she warned. “If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can.” That was one point, at least, on which both sides could agree. In Donald Trump’s words, “We’re in a fight for the survival of our nation and civilization itself.”
Angelo Codevilla was not the first analyst to describe our political disorders as a cold (i.e., nonshooting) civil war, but after him the term resonated. A cold civil war, of course, is better than a hot one. But it’s not a healthy situation for a country to be in.
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