Monday, September 13, 2021

If 9/11 Happened Today, Could We Unite As We Did 20 Years Ago?

My latest column for CTNewsJunkie.com:

Is America capable of uniting for or against anything anymore, as we did 20 years ago? As one Facebook commenter cracked, "I don't think America could unite behind a love of ice cream, let alone something important." We are way too far gone:

I really derive no enjoyment from being such a pessimist, but I don’t think we can unite anymore on any matter of urgent public policy. We can’t even agree on the depravity of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington. Another Monmouth survey conducted earlier this summer found that half of Republican voters characterize the violent attack as “legitimate protest.”

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