There is no impending "civil war" because there's no organized left to speak of. No leadership, no program, no territory, no military force regular or irregular. The American "left" can't even agree on a common cause or effective slogans.
No, far more likely is a Years of Lead period but absent the Communist Party. Basically deranged QAnon terrorists and extreme-right militias setting off bombs or shooting protesters either with the outright complicity or begrudgingly hostility of law enforcement. These people are railing against a phantom menace and as a result their violence will be directed in a disorganized and incoherent fashion based on immediate circumstances, whims, and deramged conspiracy theories.
There is no impending "civil war" because there's no organized left to speak of. No leadership, no program, no territory, no military force regular or irregular. The American "left" can't even agree on a common cause or effective slogans.
No, far more likely is a Years of Lead period but absent the Communist Party. Basically deranged QAnon terrorists and extreme-right militias setting off bombs or shooting protesters either with the outright complicity or begrudgingly hostility of law enforcement. These people are railing against a phantom menace and as a result their violence will be directed in a disorganized and incoherent fashion based on immediate circumstances, whims, and deramged conspiracy theories.