Wednesday and still no frozen precipitation here in Chicago. We had a light snow shower about a week ago, but nothing stuck and it’s been warm since. No doubt global warming is respons—wait! This just in: New York City expected to get between 12 to 18 inches of snow, more than three times what they got all last winter! It’s global cooling!

Meh.

With the country split as deeply and evenly as it is between “Normal” Americans (Kurt Schlichter’s term) and the mutant Left, talk of secession isn’t really a surprise. In the wake of the election coup, however, the topic is surging.

Schlichter’s most recent column at Townhall.com:

The thing that keeps the lid on this boiling pot is that right now, most people have something to lose. But if you take everything away from someone, he becomes extremely dangerous – something the epically unwise ruling caste, most of whom have never been in a fistfight, don’t get.

Current Texas GOP Chairman Allen West, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to deny the Texas election lawsuit, issued a statement that read, in part:

This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable. This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.

Rush Limbaugh, referencing others he had heard, said on his radio show,

I actually think that we’re trending toward secession […] There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs. We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.

Leftist political activist Amy Siskind posted a map on Twitter last week that suggested blue states should join Canada (and then deleted it):

Did @Amy_Siskind just delete this tweet?#Jesusland pic.twitter.com/kx6Sr535XG

— TheCorwan (@TheCorwan) December 10, 2020

Back in August, the Democrats war-gamed a closely contested election.

In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned. The House named Mr. Biden president; the Senate and White House stuck with Mr. Trump. At that point in the scenario, the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.

Several states have dealt with secession movements, including Texas, California, Oregon and Virginia. So far, none of it has borne fruit. Back in November 2018, New York magazine published an article called “Maybe It’s Time for America to Split Up” which said,

Let’s just admit that this arranged marriage isn’t really working anymore, is it? The partisan dynamic in Washington may have changed, but our dysfunctional, codependent relationship is still the same. The midterm results have shown that Democrats have become even more a party of cities and upscale suburbs whose votes are inefficiently packed into dense geographies, Republicans one of exurbs and rural areas overrepresented in the Senate. The new Congress will be more ideologically divided than any before it, according to a scoring system developed by Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica: the Republicans more conservative, the Democrats more liberal.

I’m not going to argue the merits of either pro-secession or anti-secession. The point I am making is that this talk is now loud enough and serious enough to pay attention to. And I’m pounding a stake in the ground right here and right now to declare that I am opposed to secession, from either the Right or the Left (but especially from the Left).

Several states tried to leave in the nineteenth century and we fought a bloody civil war (some 750,000 killed) to keep them in the Union. Abraham Lincoln lost his life putting down the rebellion because he believed secession was illegal and was willing to use force to preserve the Union. If secession was illegal then, it’s illegal now. Member states of the United States of America cannot metaphorically just pick up their ball and leave.

More importantly, I’m not interested in having, say, California, leave the union and become the Democratic Republic of Progressivstan. Such a country on our western flank would allow that liberal wasteland to make independent treaties with their fantasy partners, China, Russia and Venezuela. I’m not willing to give those communist regimes a toe hold anywhere on our mainland.

No, if any leftist junior commie governor and their state legislature declared that they were seceding from the Union, I would rather fight to hold that territory than let them go with whatever resources they have—such as the nation’s top two deep draft ports: Los Angeles and Long Beach. To quote the progressives’ favorite community organizer, “You didn’t build that.” Therefore, you’re not taking that.

Plenty of celebrities threatened to leave when Trump took office. They were going to Canada! They were going to Europe! The big teases—I noticed that none of them made good on their threats.

If you want to leave, hey, the world’s your oyster. Feel free and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. But don’t for one second think that you’re taking any part of this country with you when you walk out.

If the union is worth having, it’s worth preserving—and for more reasons than I can outline in a short post. It’s not going to be an amicable divorce.