The Political Class: At war with each other and on the rest of us

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible," President John F. Kennedy said in a 1962 speech, "will make violent revolution inevitable."

Nearly 60 years later, two warring groups within the American political class seem resolutely determined to make "peaceful revolution" -- by which JFK seems to have meant orderly democratic decision-making -- impossible.

Supporters of Donald Trump rejected...