What Are You Going to Say About the 2024 Election Years From Now?

Conventional wisdom, witnessed by talking to your next door neighbors, friends and even strangers, reveals contemporary American politics is deeply polarized. Rachel Kleinfeld of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes: “Some scholars claim that Americans are so polarized they are on the brink of civil war.”

The January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection and ensuing lawsuits prove that a political civil war already exists. The headline of an op-ed in The Washington Post, authored by Francis Wilkinson, a U.S. politics and policy expert, sounds a clarion bell: “The only US `Civil War’ will...