he Right wing state that results from the split would soon be far more based and powerful than America is now.

Which, ironically, happened with Rome too, where Western Rome decayed while Eastern Rome reinvented itself, became Byzantium, and lived for another thousand years as one of the most powerful nations in Europe.

Kind of like how people keep comparing us to the Roman Republic not realizing Rome reached it's height after it overthrew the Republic and became an Empire.