I believe it may be a little too late for sackcloth and ashes. More like 'wheat and tares' time. Not difficult to see who had a conscience and who didn't. This issue is like the wind blowing away the tares for all to see.
Not certain how America is going to balance out, but at least the mask has been ripped off and there can be no more pretense.
34Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughterinlaw against her motherinlaw