this. Soyviking is right that the dominant strain of thought among the bourgeoisie is that domestic uprisings are bad for business, but they’re a much wider and more nuanced class in society than just the Bill Gates’ and Jeff Bezos’ of the world. local petite bourgeois interests (think car dealership owners, small restaurant chain operators, sometimes landlords) and a lot of extractive capital interests out west (think mining/logging company execs, cattle ranchers) are the ones rallying behind the far right figures in the USA today like Trump, Cawthorn, Boebert, and MTG. small capital seeking to overturn or speak over national/international capital has historically been a key feature of fascism, and it doesn’t just take the actual threat of leftist victories to make them a threat. they’re paranoid and irrational— simply the illusion or fear that ‘leftists’ or whatever force they’re afraid is corrupting the nation are making gains can incite them to violence. the holocaust didn’t happen because jews were secretly controlling and destroying germany, it happened because the Nazis and the armed mass/network of militias like the brownshirts convinced themselves they were.

civil war can happen here, very suddenly, and very brutally. millions of americans are willing to die and kill to ‘Make America Great Again’, and they’re not going to ask Wall Street or Washington’s permission to do so if they decide its time for their region of the US to secede.