By Selwyn Duke

America’s fractiousness, says pundit Leonard Pitts, is the pits. We’ve lost “the willingness and ability to share a common national identity,” he complains — as a result of Republicans’ “pursuit of power.”

In an article penned last week, Tribune columnist Pitts opened citing how actor Sean Penn, who’d been in Ukraine when Russia invaded, mentioned that we Americans lack the unity he experienced in that besieged nation. Pitts points out, however, that just as in the United States after 9/11, witnessed in Ukraine is “the predictable byproduct of an immediate existential threat.”

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