Will There Be Another Civil War?

Like everyone else, a month ago I was convinced the November was going to be a blowout for the GOP, and we’d just have to somehow get through the next two years with a daily rant from Trump about how he’d get elected again in 2024.

But that was then, this is now. And now that the mid-term election campaign is getting into full strife, all of a sudden, the whole thing seems to have changed. Not only do recent polls show the blue team is either even or pulling ahead in the Senate and maybe even the House, but the attempt by the GOP to come up with a rational or believable response to the MAGA narrative for bringing people out to vote seems to have collapsed.

I’m referring to the most recent statements by McConnell and Graham, the former stating that the GOP will end Joe Biden’s spending splurge, the latter saying that we better prepare for another civil war. McConnell’s comment made it on my Google news summary for about 30 minutes, Graham’s pronouncements about the upcoming civil war and ‘riots in the streets’ is still reverberating through the Fake News.

And to make the looming civil war idea even more plausible, today we have a survey from a national polling outfit — YouGov — which says that two out of five Americans believe that a civil war is ‘likely’ to break out in the next ten years.

Pardon me if I indulge myself by delivering a brief lecture from American History 101. But if a reputable polling outfit like YouGov is going to ask Americans whether they think that a civil…