Dude, it was Czechoslovakia. Just one "k."
A columnist who presumes to "edit[] Democracy: A Journal of Ideas should rely on an editor or two himself, and a human spellchecker.
In a column where he laments the underlying discord in American politics and hopes to apply that as context to a secession vote in eleven counties in Colorado, he cites other sorrowful examples of other nations who couldn't stay married, in spite of the kids, and were sundered by the "culture-ization of their politics."
No matter that a guy named Tito kept those Yugos from piously murdering one another for most of a generation (defined as four 20-year spans, if you follow the Strauss and Howe model), for example. A generational cycle of that length is about as long as any government-imposed common immiseration can be expected to hold together. The New Deal included.
(Typo corrected)
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