Necessary, perhaps. Survivable? This, I worry about. See, @TheGreatParis says that America can back away from the precipice one step at a time. And it’s a nice image, sure, but what I fear is the case—if I may extend the metaphor—is that America’s gone over the precipice and is now in freefall. And taking steps back from that doesn’t work.
I fear that all paths from the current situation go through a political singularity on the other side of which is a political arrangement unimaginable at present. Perhaps it is a much better country. Perhaps it is ruin.
I don’t think anyone can tell which.
