This ↑↑↑. There isn't going to be any reconciliation.
When the government possesses as much power as the U.S. federal government does, there are going to be intense factional fights over who gets to control all that power.
And when the factions are drawn from over a continent-spanning population of over a third of a billion people, at least one of those factions is going to be sufficiently large that it will pose a significant (political) threat to the other(s). When you combine this with the fact that "progressivism" (as the guiding ideology of one of those factions) simply cannot be reconciled - not even in principle (indeed,
especially not in principle) - with
"conservatism" [1] "anti-progressivism", then you end up with only three possible outcomes. Broadly speaking, those outcomes are:
(1) left-socialist authoritarianism that actively represses opposing factions (including but not limited to the right-fascist ones)
(2) right-fascist authoritarianism that actively represses opposing factions (including but not limited to the left-socialist ones)
(3) the political collapse and breakup of the previously-existing regime (by way of either relatively peaceful "national divorce" or relatively violent "civil war")
Of course, (1) and (2) are really just different flavors of the same thing (i.e., repressive authoritarianism), The only possibility congenial to liberty is (3) - and even (3) may result in some (all ?) pieces that themselves end up manifesting (1) or (2).
In fact, national "unity" (perhaps under the guise of some kind of false "reconciliation") is the absolute
last thing we need
[2] - at least, if we care about liberty. If that ever happens, then (1) or (2) will finally have been achieved. Since the early 1900s (or even before) things have slowly "progressed" (
ha-ha) to the point of no return. The genie is out of the bottle (or the water is over the dam
[3]) - and it's not going back. Something's gotta give, and now it's only a question of "when" and "how", not "if".
[1] "Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit." -- MIchael Malice
[2] "A united populace is the ultimate and explicit goal of every totalitarian state." -- MIchael Malice
[3] "They thought Trump was the river but he was the dam." -- Michael Malice
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