Walter Williams profoundly captured the mood and inclinations of many of us when he wrote his succession essay at the time of the attempted election stealing campaign during the 2000 elections.
I felt then that the Democrats did not love this country, only power, when they pulled the stunts they did and put the country through hell, rather than nobly concede as Nixon did in 1960.
A line was drawn then that I'm not certain has been erased. I saw the Leftist Democrats for what they were: authoritarians bent on power, and representing something alien to this political and spiritual culture.
I am not hopeful in maintaining the Union, as it is now composed of two antithical world views.
I've since wondered if this was how it felt to those who lived through the 1850s when the issues that were to result in the Civil war were simmering and unresolved.