If we are going to have a new civil war in America, it won’t necessarily start with states sending their militias to attack each other. It will start with a cynical action like the one by the Florida governor to ship undocumented immigrants from the Mexican border to places like Martha’s Vineyard.
It will start with the right-wing governor in Texas and his party making it legal for private citizens to become bounty hunters enforcing draconian laws against abortion.
And it will start with enough election deniers in place in enough swing-state countries to steal an election the way Donald Trump wanted them to in 2020.
In other words, it will only because of the extreme provocations of the extreme right-wing authoritarian movement taking root in certain parts of this country.
The leaders in the sections of the country still under reasonably civil control like California will then feel they have little choice but to copy the bad law in Texas by passing an equally bad one on the west coast allowing private citizens to enforce gun laws.
Until recently, red and blue states have been attacking each other with relatively benign measures like travel bans, but things are escalating right now. The lies and conspiracy theories flourishing on the right have taken root and that means trouble.
This is how it starts.
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