There’s not enough plaster in Paris to repair the cracks made. Once weakened, best forgotten.
The problem is, with the two sides marching in orthogonal directions, we are setting ourselves up for two countries that overlap in physical space.
Such an arrangement cannot stand, it seems like we are going to have a civil war, one much like the Spanish civil war, with the left figuring they can take out their enemies and the right figuring they can do the same.
I sort of feel we are living in a situation similar to 1932 Spain, 1916 Russia, 1786 France or 1676 France. Something bad this way comes and we are powerless to stop it.