@emptywheel The chances of a two state solution took a huge hit in May 1982 when Menachim Begin started referring to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria.
@emptywheel the idea of a loyal opposition, the radicals of the GOP have, since Reagan, committed to total political warfare. From a Texas congressman in 1992 saying that Bill Clinton "is not my president" to McConnell's famous remark about Obama in 2010, it's all there.
@emptywheel At my advanced age I can state with authority that there is no reasonable expectation of breaking through polarization in a generation. From the concepts of politics stopping at the waters edge and th