Escalating violence as armed protests planned in all 50 state capitals

[Rev. Rye]

I sure hope that you are correct. Also, the population is homogeneous enough even on a state-wise basis that a civil war is pretty much out of the question. My chump-supporting neighbors may have signs (STILL!?) in their front yards, but I don't expect them to go marching in brigades in the streets.

A civil war may not be the right term for it, but it seems like it might be something similar. I'm torn between calling it sectarian violence (although religion is, if anything, incidental to these conflicts), wondering whether we even have proper polisci terms for what looks like is going to happen if this horseshit goes anywhere beyond “civil unrest” (which has kind of been the default in America for years if not decades), and just saying "the Hell with it" and calling it a civil war anyway (since A) looking at the English Civil War it turns out that a full-on secession like America had in 1860 isn't necessary for something to count as a Civil War, and B) that's what the people doing this actually want it to be.)