@INVAR Thank you, INVAR, for this well thought out post and taking the time to write it. I copied your words to post them again and here they are:
"The GOP is not in open warfare with the Left, they are too busy placating and accommodating them and adopting the Left's Agenda as their own with a few modifications. The Left is certainly 'at war' with everyone they perceive to be in opposition to them. The 'Right'? Not so much.
We've been warning of that path we have been treading for years to wholesale dismissal from everyone who insisted that could never happen here and/or our salvation rests on political saviors. We will live that which we have chosen to be ignorant of.
You are witness to the fact illustrated on this very board that sharing a commonality is rarely if ever possible. We cannot even agree on what the core moral foundations are supposed to be, much less the definition of liberty as intended. Hell, we cannot even define marriage, or what constitutes a standard family anymore.
It will take a biblically religious revival, of which the majority of churches in this nation are not even interested in, and a majority population who view the bible with hostility, want nothing to do with.
So too does Nationalist Populism that has no problem with big government. Socialism simply by another name.
We are ALREADY sharply Left. Even among the GOP and the 'Moderates' - the Constitution is referenced only when it serves their larger political agenda and have no more use for it's strict adherence anymore than the Democrats do. Populists for Trump have previously stated their opinion is that he needs to act as a dictator. As to fighting back - well, France in the early-to-mid 1790's is most likely what will result, especially when the economic consequences already sown come crashing down on us.
We are already too divided among core issues and values to pose any kind of unified opposition and the majority of the population will side with the Left rather than those who want smaller government."