Commentary Accelerating cultural mutations in the West are casting troubling shadows over the future of consensual democracy. In the United States and Canada, entrenched majorities presently support nanny state management, excessive government spending, upwardly shifting debt ceilings, high taxes, mass immigration, unsustainable entitlements, job-killing climate change obsessions, media censorship, limitations on free speech, a China-centric global order, and draconian pandemic measures. Tragically, the more social and economic decline incurred by the middle and working classes, the less interest there is in openly debating the merits of progressive government policies. The Value of Opposition Adversarial debate, in both legislative bodies and the public square, was once considered a foundational principle of democracy. A willingness to engage in ordered discourse led citizens to consider different points of view and arrive at well-informed conclusions. The main role of a political opposition was to question the government of the day and hold it accountable …