Under the heading of “Could the United States Be Headed for a National Divorce?”,” Great Britain’s Chatham House/Royal Institute for International Affairs features as its Expert Comment Feb. 20 an ahistorical, poll- and issues-based piece of sophistry on the U.S.’s 2024 elections as proof of the coming break-up of the United States. The King’s minions counsel that “America’s friends and allies” should act on the basis that “the United States has become a Disunited States. There are effectively two Americas—and they are at war. They are fighting over social, political and constitutional issues, and over what role the U.S. should play in the world. The 2024 U.S. election is just another battle in this war.”
The commentary is sprinkled with phrases such as “talk of another civil war brewing over the country’s future,” “an increasingly Balkanized U.S.,” “increasing hyperbolic insurrectionist sentiment.” It suggests that it is the continuing “legacy of the civil war” which lies behind the fight between liberal Blue State Democrats and Red State Trumpers over issues such as transgender rights, immigration, abortion, etc., etc., which are (it asserts) leading the country to a break-up. Multiple public opinion polls purport to make the case.
The author is one Bruce Stokes, an “American” with a long British pedigree. He is currently an Associate Fellow of Chatham House and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the (utterly Anglophile) German Marshall Fund, and was previously a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (which itself is a spin-off of Chatham House) and the former director of Pew Research Center’s Global Economic Attitudes. He thinks, in other words, like a British imperial fool.
The British Monarchy has yet to understand that the American Revolution was fought not over “issues,” but in defense of the principle that men and women are capable of self-government because human beings are naturally Good, and that the purpose of government is to foster that goodness in its people and its policies. Abraham Lincoln defeated the British Monarchy’s operation to break up the United States through the Confederacy that it financed and directed, by mobilizing Americans behind that principle of moral government of, by, and for the People.
So, Americans are going to have to once again remind the British imperial power (and themselves) that it is that commitment to the Good which has held and will continue to hold the United States, with all its wonderful diversity, together as a one.
