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James P. Pinkerton : By the mid 2020s , the population of the U.S. had reached nearly 350 million putting impossible stresses on the idea of a single national big government.

He says the result, as those old enough to remember those days recall, was anarcho-tyranny.

The federal government was strong enough to generate inflation and throttle economic growth, but too weak, or too lazy, to concern itself with lawlessness on the border.

Frida Ghitis: 25 governors formed a Red Bloc for Border and National Security in 2024 .

She says the event of 2024 pushed half the country toward more vigorous border enforcement.

Ghitis says the two battered sides agreed on the need for a truce, but the old social contract had been sundered, and that a new and different one had to be stitched together.

Frida Ghitis: Red States , Blue States have done better since '25 .

Ghitis says the two sides settled in for a long-term competition.

She says Red Consciousness was one part erudite constitutionalism, one part regional pride and one part ass-kicking of anything “librul’s” Ghitis.