Do you trust your state officials more than feds, dream of California independence, or support breaking the U.S. into regional republics?

Then you’re a traditional American patriot.

Or do you cling to hopes of national unity, or believe in compromise to preserve our union of 330 million?

Then you’re part of the problem.

The frightening 2020 election is disrupting how we think about America and California’s place in it — and thank goodness for that. Perhaps now, Americans might come to see national unity as a dangerous pursuit, and embracing our divisions as our best hope for protecting our rights and building a better future.

This powerful argument fuels two smart new books. One is an American history, "Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union" by "The Nation" writer Richard Kreitner. The other is a deep, California-inspired analysis of the present and future, "Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for States’ Rights in the United States," by Arizona State University political scientist Allan Colbern and UC Riverside Center for Social Innovation director S. Karthick Ramakrishnan.

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