Rabbi is right one could say that
It doesn’t look too good
Resurrection is still possible, even imperative.
Remember, there was no “American Ideal” before the rebellion against the British Crown in the 18th Century, and that dream was perilously close to extinction even as it was getting launched. The spirit lives, even if the visible signs seem to have expired. The forms and the structure are still in place, and there is enough heat remaining to restore the full flame from the embers.
Phoenix arising from the ashes.
Re-read Thomas Paine’s The America Crisis - “These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
If at first you don’t secede.