Man, I've been trying to come up with the perfect analogy, and you just nailed it. The Republicans are the modern-day "Mensheviks".
The only long-term hope for the survival of traditional American freedom and capitalism will ultimately lie in the division of the nation.
The trouble is, those things historically do not go easily or neatly. For every Czech Republic - Slovakian amicable “divorce” there are a dozen former Yugoslav Republics and their bloody civil wars.
The leftists will not let the freedom loving states go easily once they have imposed their totalitarianism on the nation.
I for one am getting too old for such prospects. I saw the effects of this sort of thing first-hand while serving overseas and have no desire to see it here.
But its inevitable. I hope that I don’t live long enough to see it. Because it won’t be pretty. It never is.