How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

by Ben Shapiro

What holds America together? That question has, in recent years, taken on renewed urgency. Increasingly, Americans don’t like each other. They don’t want to associate with one another; they don’t want to live next door to one another. More and more, they don’t want to share the same country anymore. Red areas are getting redder. Blue areas are getting bluer. According to a November 2018 Axios poll, 54 percent of Republicans believe that the Democratic Party is spiteful, while 61 percent of Democrats believe the Republican Party is racist, bigoted, or sexist. Approximately one-fifth of both Republicans and Democrats consider the opposing party “evil.”1 A Pew Research poll from 2016 found similar numbers: 70 percent of Democrats say Republicans are close-minded, while 52 percent of Republicans say Democrats are close-minded; the same poll found that 58 percent of Republicans had an unfavorable impression of the Democratic Party leading up to the election, while 55 percent of Democrats felt the same.