Yeah, not like a 2 sides grand lines of light infantry fighting out in the woods. And it wouldn't be the left instigating such a war, if anything we'd be trying our hardest to prevent it (not least because we don't have the organization to actually contest it and win power for now).

But low-grade civil unrest like The Troubles in Northern Ireland or the Years of Lead in Italy? That's absolutely going to happen, regardless if Trump or Biden wins. Maybe a little more intense like the war in Donbass but with a few factions and in a few regions? That could happen. Maybe just a complete shitshow like Syria? Probably not, but Robert Evans' (@IWriteOK on twitter) It Could Happen Here had a couple reasonable scenarios how civil war could proceed in the US. So far we've been tracking with one of his possible scenarios.

I also think the power of the US media is such that there will be major civil unrest and bombings but all y'all will still pretend it's not a civil war and it'll all be normalized - dozens of politically motivated shootings a few times a week downtown, bombings of major infrastructure, military going AWOL to join local militias, police conducting midnight raids, bearcats and checkpoints, etc. But you'll still have to go to work in the middle of all of that.