CALLS FOR NATIONAL divorce imply that Americans are too different to share a country. Better to retreat to enclaves. Better to cluster with those who share your political affinity and religious beliefs. Let’s stick to our own kind.
This crude tribalism is the most disturbing feature of national divorce discourse. It’s self-reinforcing: Insist Americans’ differences are irreconcilable, cherry-pick extreme but rare examples to exaggerate those differences, and presto, the increased hostility bolsters the case for national divorce!
National divorce is not devolving policy from the federal government down to the state and local levels. That’s federalism. It’s not governors challenging federal authority through the courts. That’s also federalism. It’s
