There is little doubt that this country is both narrowly and badly divided. To the extent that there is any debate about the severity, it is whether today is worse than 1968, when both the civil rights struggle and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam divided the country.
A lack of trust has permeated our politics and society and created an enormous combustibility, especially because there is little more fundamental to the American democracy than the sanctity of the ballot box. CONTINUED
Charlie Cook
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