Can America survive as one country? If so, what will it take?

Can America remain as one country? Should it? The question is no longer outrageous, not if we define outrage as something beyond the pale, far outside the norm. Any 30 second search on google or duck-duck-go will reveal scores of articles that detail counties wishing to join adjacent states, regions of some states wishing to become a separate state, and, most significantly, individual states that would like to secede from the union.

Like it or not, Donald Trump is the man of the hour; he is the man whose time has come. It is easy and fair to be at odds with his temperament, his character, his ego; I don’t care, we need a samurai, a warrior politician. His detractors may not want him at the Sunday dinner table, but we need him leading the alley fight in which we’re now engaged. That realization has become crystal clear. This battle is about survival: Will we remain one country or succumb to Balkanization? Like it or not, and doubtless counterintuitively to his lefty critics, Donald Trump is our last and only opportunity and chance to avoid cataclysm. It’s time to say it out loud.