You can’t open up a major newspaper without reading a steady stream of op-eds lamenting the end of democracy in the United States or come across a poll predicting a civil war in the next few years. There is a balm for such doom and gloom predictions: It’s called history.
Max Boot’s most recent op-ed is emblematic of this picture of the Unit…
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