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"Both a Civil War and the most extreme forms of fascism would require a level of mobilization into armed units that the current Trumpist right has shown little capacity for."

And I would disagree - they already have the shock troops they need in the police, and the emotional preparation is there. They just want to jack control of the government and then use the usual groups to crackdown. That's the formula in most countries. Civil war by other means.

"The closest analogy would be the rise of Jim Crow in the late 19th century, where the same combination of legal manipulation and extra-legal violence achieved the effect of mass disenfranchisement along racial lines. Which is worrisome enough, even if it isn’t the worst case scenario. We’d all do well to take Madison Cawthorn very seriously indeed."

I do. It's people like that Ben Dreyfuss guy who think I'm insane, etcetera, etcetera, which is always nice to hear from people who know a lot less about this subject (along multiple dimensions) than I do. But hey! They told me that during the War on Terror too. So.

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