Commentary There can be no question where America stands now. It stands on the precipice of something altogether different from what it once claimed to be: a republic. As we have witnessed the country continue to practically willfully tear itself apart, the words of Jesus Christ, reiterated by Abraham Lincoln, echo in our ears: A house divided against itself cannot stand. For a country that had been so strongly built on solid ground—a rock, even—it has been relocated on top of shifting sand. The winds and waves from enemies foreign and domestic have pressed so powerfully upon the house. I pray those words do not come true—“and great was the fall of it”—but it’s difficult to see any other path for the republic except for collapse. Our government cares little for the common man, and the frustrations felt by the nation’s people have boiled over into outright rage. That rage …