Why is Europe so clearly failing to emulate the United States, which also began life as a loose confederacy of fractious states before consolidating magnificently in response to its various existential crises?

the party was internally fractious and snidely perceived as inaudible in national policy debates

In Infinite Jest, however, the duality of the individual operates through a fractious dialectic.

fractious mood

The neoliberal hegemony in the United States, for instance, came about by linking together the interests of economic liberals with those of social conservatives. This is a fractious (sometimes even contradictory) alliance, but it is one that finds common interests in the broad neoliberal framework by emphasising individual freedoms.

To make us appear even more fractious

Rand’s posthumous appeal has not been limited to the fractious overlapping company of neoliberals, libertarians, conservatives, and right-wing politicians,

The Marxists are a gaggle of émigrés, reprobates, scholars and workers, in a close weave of family, friendship and intellectual connections, political endeavour and polemic. They tangle in a fractious snarl.

the left's apathy and single-issue fractiousness and the right's hypocritical moralizing

There are various broad fractious currents of thought on the left as to how to address the problems that now confront us.