The Daily Beast's Lloyd Green: From Preston Brooks to Jim DeMint, There's a Continuity of Political Division, Most Recently Culminating in the Government Shutdown

Lloyd Green's article at The Daily Beast is linked below.

Lloyd Green: Something Resembling Civil War

"Welcome to the latest installment in America’s long-simmering, semi-civil, civil war. Just because General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House doesn’t mean that old grievances have gone away.

These days, the Republican Party is the party of the South; the party of Lincoln is now the party of Ted Cruz and Jim DeMint..."

---Lloyd Green, The Daily Beast