Commentary One of the things the Left hates most about the United States of America is that there are 50 of them. A leftist revolution is more easily accomplished in a country in which power is already consolidated in a single place among a small group of people. Despite the vast territory of the Russian empire under the last of the Tsars, Lenin was able to hijack the initial anti-Tsarist revolt and turn it into a Bolshevik seizure of power. Over the course of the centuries, similar things have happened in France, England, and Germany. Indeed, after World War II the western Allies insisted that the new German government be as decentralized as possible, with the governmental departments spread all over West Germany and the capital relocated to dumpy Bonn. They wanted no repeat of another Third Reich powerhouse headquartered in Berlin. For decades, America has proven a harder nut …