An Evitable Disaster
Rkichard Fernandez
"The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War", according to Peter Leyden and Ruy Teixeira in Medium is "there’s no bipartisan way forward at this juncture in our history — one side must win. ... The solution for the people of California was to reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens — and by extension their elected officials — under the Democratic Party’s big tent."
This conquer or die view, unlike Kevin Williamson's, is not beyond the pale. In fact Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey described the Medium article as a "great read". The idea that only one side of the political aisle leaves the room while the other is clapped in irons plainly expresses many may have secretly thought except heretofore it was necessary to conceal it. Now the decks are cleared and some are itching to raise the Jolly Roger.
The major problem with this strategy is China, whose relentless competition will penalize all irrational political correctness and all serious division. America can become as dysfunctional as California but China will own it. As David Goldman noted in a speech delivered at Hillsdale College "China is a phenomenon unlike anything in economic history."