The author concludes: “There is a comfort to the familiarity of our fiery moment because we know that it will pass.”
He is overly confident of that. Many people believe we are in the “Bleeding Kansas” antebellum period 1854 to 1861 when irreconcilable differences finally tore the nation apart.
Well it may indeed pas, but the country may also pass as well.
Nor can we solve it without becoming swiss cheese as a nation.
The only theoretical solution is something like DM Wozniak’s science fiction book “The Perihelion”. We divide between the red lands and the blue core cities, each with its own laws. The cities put up barriers and monitor citizens. Any blue core resident can leave but not come back, while redlanders need permission to enter and are monitored too.
The cities remain connected by air and rail and ignore the rest of the country.