[yongjik]

At the rate things are going, I wonder if America can hold together until the midterm. The Trump regime is acting like it wants a civil war.

If anyone told me in 2024 that America may see its own Tiananmen, I'd have laughed, but I'm not so sure now. I can totally see something similar at a smaller scale, and millions of Americans defending it with "it was necessary to keep law and order."

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

They're acting like they'll never be out of power or face consequences.

[quickthrowman]

Presidential pardon power is unlimited. One blanket pardon erases all accountability.

[direwolf20]

Genuine question: is this not a civil war? If this isn't a civil war, what is the difference between this and a civil war?

[JKCalhoun]

In the U.S. Civil War several states joined together to break from the nation. I'm not seeing anything like that here.

I am seeing a cold civil war with Pacific states banding together for health initiatives. And states gerrymandering their districts prompting other states to then gerrymander theirs in response. That kind of cold civil war.

Minnesota now calling up their state's national guard is the first sign I see of the cold civil war warming up.

[yongjik]

Today, when Trump's goons kill a man you see it on the news.

When it becomes a war, your side will drop bombs, burn houses, and kill people every day. And you will cheer them on. Because the alternative is defeat and death.

War is a terrible thing, and Trump is steering America toward it.

[myko]

it is

it has been one since we, collectively, failed to make trump pay the price for his insurrection attempt

[Hikikomori]

You should have read project 2025 in 2024 then.

To quote the main author: the revolution will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

[dogmatism]

>The Trump regime is acting like it wants a civil war.

it's not out of the question that incitement to invoke insurrection act and then cancel the midterms is the strategy

[direwolf20]

the guy in charge isn't thinking straight, and he saw that Ukraine had no elections during the war, and he saw that Russia had rigged elections during the war, and I don't know what other countries, but he might think America can skip elections during a war, if he starts enough wars, and he might be right.