Great article! Thank you for reporting on this event and the various viewpoints that were presented.  
May I suggest another angle--
The greatest American generation was/is the generation that survived the Depression and World War II--many of them came out stronger, more pragmatic,  with a more accurate sense of reality and yet positive and good humored. (I grew up among them).  
Hard times can bear good fruit if we face the challenge.  We were already reaching the point of a mentality preceding civil war and the Trumpian mess is forcing us to face it.  We need to re-establish the best of the concepts on which our nation was founded--"that all [humans] are created [genetically] equal  and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights..."  [and responsibilities].