No but the hyperbole of “someone” starting a civil war seems inflammatory.
I wish it were.
A scholar of political assassinations says the US just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil war when Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
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Schalit: When you heard the news, what was the first thing you thought?
Perliger: The first thing that I thought about is that we were basically one inch from a
potential civil war. I think that if, indeed, Donald Trump would have suffered fatal injuries today, the level of violence that we witnessed so far will be nothing in comparison to what would have happened in the next couple of months. I think that would have unleashed a new level of anger, frustration, resentment, hostility that we haven’t seen for many, many years in the U.S.
"Would it be worth it? To turn this nation back? I believe it would," Evangelical preacher Andrew Wommack said of a civil war.
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Evangelical preacher Andrew Wommack said that a "civil war" would be "worth it" if it meant getting former President
Donald Trump back into the White House.
"I've actually had people say that if Trump was to be elected if we got a conservative
Congress, that they fear that we would have
another civil war," Wommack said during a Wednesday episode of his
Truth & Liberty show. "And you know what? I don't want a civil war, I don't know anybody that does, but would it be worth it? To turn this nation back? I believe it would."
The growing political divide in the United States has sparked speculations that a war could break out at any moment over the escalating feuds between
Republicans and
Democrats. Trump supporters have repeatedly suggested that if he doesn't win the 2024 election, there will be a civil war. Trump is currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary race.
Wommack walked back his comments, but I posted this as I am not the only one who has heard or read the threat of civil war if Trump does not win.
Ask a MAGA Republican what will happen if former President
Donald Trump is convicted in any of his four criminal trials and the answer is almost always the same: civil war.
That answer holds true whether you speak to rank-and-file Republican voters, local elected officials or even former national GOP leaders. It’s also an indication that the right-wing politics of grievance is spiraling dangerously out of control.
In Georgia, state Sen.
Colton Moore warned politico-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon that any prosecution of Trump would
lead to a likely civil war. “I don’t want to have to draw my rifle,” Moore said. Concerningly, Moore also seemed to imply that Georgia state troopers would be willing participants in any effort to bust Trump out of jail. That last bit may be fantastical thinking on Moore’s part, but he’s hardly alone.
Former Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate
Kandiss Taylor also lent her voice to the chorus of war cries, describing Trump’s indictments as “treason” and “a hijacking of our country,”
telling podcaster William Wallis, “This is war, and I hope and pray it gets resolves before we use guns…we’re at war right now, a war for our freedom.”
I have read stuff on this site implying civil war if Trump does not win. I truly wish it is hyperbole on my part.
