the states against the states. And I feel like with some of this stuff we're seeing now, the billboards in other states, they're sending migrants to other states. I feel like the states themselves are clawing out territory and fighting with each other in a way we haven't seen. Which is, I think, rather disturbing than where this might be heading. It is. So maybe it's a war among the states, which is a little different. But I think what you're looking at here is I thought this was like the 1930s for a long time. Dictatorship on the march abroad, democracy under assault here, and great tensions, radios changing everything, more people living in cities than on farms the first time. All the kinds of things that sort of echo now. I fear that the evidence of the last couple years is that this is more like the 1850s, where we don't simply disagree about the ends of politics. We disagree about the understanding of reality itself. Politics is seen less as a mediation of differences, which is (14/45)