The Michael Bay Theory of History

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I read a whole lot of January 6th columns and reportage this past week. One stood out to me as extra bizarre: a John F. Harris in called “We Are In a New Civil War … About What Exactly?” He lays out the premise in the sub-headline: “Grievous conflicts have been about big things—war, slavery, Depression—but this time we just don’t like each other.” I suspect the whole column came from the germ of an idea to compare modern politics to the television program ,via the whole “a show