(Chris Schneider / Reuters) On David French’s new book,
Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
Editor’s Note: Below is an expanded version of a piece that appears in the current issue of National Review.
Campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina often spoke of “two Americas”: the haves and have-nots. We Republicans hooted at this. Edwards seemed to be saying that half the country was in dire straits. In the middle of the Great Depression, FDR had spoken of only a third! (“Ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”)
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