SQUABBLING OVER NOTHING.

Victor Hanson is an historian, and he offers perspective.  Fifty years ago, national politics might have been even more fraught than it is today, and yet the Republic carried on.

America is such a huge and diverse country, and so abundantly endowed with natural and human resources, that it is capable of achieving unprecedented scientific, economic and technological breakthroughs even as its social fabric is tearing apart.

Or, put another way, while the media highlights crime, protests, grievances and civil disorder, a majority of Americans still go to work unbothered each day.

And in a rare society with a free market, constitutional government and individual freedom, people continue to do amazing things even amid the utter chaos around them.

Back in the day, the institutional chaos might have been genuine.

Today much of it is trumped up.  Decide for yourself, dear reader, whether or not that is a pun.