Jack White sums it up brilliantly

[paleotn]

21. Never said it was simple. Where'd that come from?? Just that a fall into anarchy and conflict wasn't inevitable.

There are means and methods. And perhaps the country is too big and the politics too broad to bridge. Personally, we shook off the dust of red America years ago and left them to the devils that possess them. Today, where I grew up feels like a foreign country. Honestly, I wouldn't mind all that much if we made it a foreign country. That's Putin's dream to balkanize America like the former Soviet Union, but these divisions predate him. Some might say they didn't go away after 1865. They just simmered for a century and a half.

Unless some means can be found to bridge this political divide and fix these constitutional flaws, I don't see any other way forward. We'll just continue to hobble along under a system that doesn't work anymore. From one sane administration to another lunatic and then back again. Maybe. If we're lucky. That's no way to run a country.