"Let’s remember that in U.S. history, political 'consensus' was usually based on a cross-partisan agreement to leave a discriminatory social order intact and deny marginalized groups equal representation and civil rights. In many ways, 'polarization' is the price U.S. society has had to pay for real progress towards multiracial pluralism."
brutally accurate, @tzimmer_history
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/05/30/the-unraveling-of-the-united-states-of-america/