"The crisis has come: We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."

[CousinIT]

Abraham Lincoln (Dec 1862)

[lapfog_1]

1. If we were more strongly divided geograpically

and not just rural v. urban but by area of the nation, I would expect a second civil war.

[BigmanPigman]

2. It was already described as such earlier.

On the day before President Trump was to deliver his first State of the Union speech, an event his furious, humiliated wife reportedly will attend only grudgingly, the rest of us were reminded that a state of undeclared civil war now exists in America. On one side is the president, his Republican allies in Congress, scions of finance and commerce who are cashing in on the administration’s widening corruption, white nationalists and their enablers, the resentment-nursing, swindled “forgotten men and women,” and the gleeful Russians. On the other side are the rest of us, including longtime public servants at the Justice Department and the FBI, and congressional Democrats who have the facts but clearly not the power on their side. It is a war that has been waged since the president took his oath of office with his “American Carnage” speech, designed to terrify and split an already-divided nation. . . .
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=200729