I believe that the main purpose of this wringing or the author Ronald Brownstein thesis is to explain how our country is more split than ever. Brownstein said, “Despite the fact that issues are no more divisive now than in the past, the cost of so much partisanship is paid by the American people. Perhaps the nation will find a post-partisan solution. Or perhaps there’ll be a ‘second civil war’” (563). America could be the richest and most powerful country in the whole world, however is unable to resolve all its controversial social problems, for example: health insurance, security at its border, economy security for middle class Americans, fight the threat of Islamic terrorism, etc. Is true that none of these problems are new; they are been
