“When do we get to use the guns?” is an acceptable question at right-wing rallies. It has now become perfectly normal for political representatives to call for acts of violence against their political opponents. Elected officials have opened the doors to vandals who desecrate their own legislatures. The Oath Keepers, one of the largest anti-government militias, have effectively infiltrated police forces and the Republican Party. The legal system is increasingly a spoil of political infighting. The political system has been completely overwhelmed by hyperpartisanship that renders each political decision, at best, representative of the will of only half the country. The United States, as is stands, is a textbook case of a country on the brink of civil conflict. There are plenty of reasons to trust this assessment. The mean of their answers was 67.23, so almost exactly two-thirds of the way.
A 2019 poll from Georgetown University asked registered voters how close to the “edge of a civil war” the country was, on a scale from 0 to 100. Ricks for Foreign Policy asked a group of national security experts to assess the chances of a civil war over the next 10 to 15 years. In the aftermath of former President Donald Trump’s election, Thomas E. But ever fewer Americans believe its size and power are going to save it anymore.
The United States, of course, is not just any country-it is the world’s most enduring democracy and largest economy. Americans must now take the proposition seriously, not just as a political warning but as a probable military scenario-and a potential catastrophe.
The basic truth is the United States might be on the brink of such a war today. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and militias, armed rebels attempting to kidnap sitting governors, uncertainty about the peaceful transition of power-if you read about them in another country, you would think a civil war had already begun. The unimaginable has become reality in the United States.
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