Our politics are a mess. Our political behavior and its trajectory are well past troubling. My fears are atavistic, and apocalyptic. Three-quarters of a million Americans died in the Civil War, at a time our the population of our great country was one-tenth as larges as it is today. You do the math.
We appear to have lost the ability to “agree to disagree,” or even to let the ballot box decide the outcomes of elections. Three things are clear for anyone willing to see them.
First, Democrats and some establishment Republicans were deeply unhappy with the outcome of the 2016 election and proceeded to take extreme and unprecedented measures to undermine, unseat, and hobble a duly elected president.
Second, using the deadly coronavirus pandemic as a rationale, the rules governing the 2020 elections were changed — in a manner that violated several state constitutions, and over the vocal opposition of the Republican Party and President Donald Trump.
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