Monday, March 16, 2026
Civil WarS
I find it curious that what was bifurcated discourse in America has become fragmented beyond two relatively centrist political parties. Each side of the divide is currently undergoing further divisions.
In the past, it was relatively easy to define Republican/Democrat or conservative/ liberal but currently each side of those old dichotomies is simultaneously undergoing their own rebellions from within.
On the Republican/conservative side of the political spectrum a virtual war has erupted. The Trump/MAGA forces have gained influence while the old Neocon cororatists elements look on helplessly. Of late, a new catalyst to division has erupted — the position America should take regarding the state of Israel, and now war itself (with Iran). Some of the biggest voices in what was a fairly unified conservative movement have taken to some pretty passionate disagreement. Conservative luminaries like Tucker Carlson, Meghan Kelly, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro et.al. have become noted adversaries regarding American allegiance to Israel. On one side, legitimate questions as to how much America should be meddling in the affairs of what is basically an old land dispute. People like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene are asking why American citizens should be allowing excessive influence from what is essentially a powerful lobby. If one says, “the Israeli lobby” it’s seen as inching towards anti-Semitism. Say, “the Jewish lobby” and your fate is sealed as an ally of Adolf Hitler. Viewing the positions of people like Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro and patriotism to America is seen to be in conflict with patriotism to Israel. Raising questions is forbidden. One shouldn’t dare imply that Ben Shapiro’s being Jewish in anyway colors his take on the issue.
Adding to the Israel debate, other issues have come to bring conflict to conservatives. Just recently, Donald Trump, MAGA’s figurehead, has decided to favor the use of H-1B visas to bring thousands of immigrants into the country to supply cheap labor into the — primarily — tech industry. Specific points of conflict aside, conservatism in America is witnessing a turbulent inner struggle.
Among the Democrats, another chasm. For them, the conflict has risen from an active socialist/communist sympathy at odds with a tired liberalism that is clearly fading as an identifying feature of the center-left.
The new New York mayor and a host of other foot-in-the-door socialists have pretty much tainted the Democrat party with an image that is decidedly anti-capitalist, anti-American culture and history, anti-middle America (farmers and workers), elitist, and authoritarian (if one accurately notes their support for censorship and top-down centralized regulation).
It’s difficult to say where things will ultimately settle in these philosophical upheavals. Trump is certainly a major factor. Brash as he is, he’s probably the only one capable of pushing an America-first program to the finish line. That’s not to say that “MAGA” disappears when Trump does. No doubt some prominent neocons will try to pull the Republican Party back into its stale pre-MAGA status. Aside from conflicts on the right, a genuine danger is looming in the mid-term elections. If Democrats (now largely controlled by their rabid socialist wing) successfully flip the House of Representatives, there will be nonstop impeachments (they’ll conjure something), subpoenas, massive lawfare campaigns, and their wish list (a packed Supreme Court, statehood for Puerto Rico, and D.C., entrenched election corruptions, etc.) that will solidify their position as the unopposed rulers of America. Add to this, the Supreme Court’s restrictions on Trump’s Tarriff actions which will put the nation back into the hands of America-last globalists.
We stand balanced on a very sharp edge. It’s said that republics don’t last much beyond 250 years, making it strangely ironic that we’ll be actually celebrating that milestone this coming year.
A significant part of America’s population still thinks that elections merely nudge the pendulum back and forth, never swaying too far from center. The assumption is that, in spite of passionate disagreements, the constitutional foundation of the nation never changes.
In places like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, fairly prosperous and developed — and spoiled — societies allowed complacency to accept “revolutionary” nutcases in dialing back their civilization.
America is certainly not immune to such archetypal nonsense. It almost got a head start when Joe Biden supposedly “won” the election of 2020. If sane election policies prevail (voter ID, proof of citizenship, etc.), America may squeeze a few more decades of prosperity and freedom out of the century. If “revolutionary” factions get more than their foot in the door,…we’re in for some real difficulties.
