■ In this week’s Inner Loop:I’ve been living in the small world of civil conflict historians, and can report back that they are very much worried. Just not about a civil war.
Things look a little different in the US these days.
Leaves are turning, the football stadiums are full, and children are planning their trick-or-treating routes; there are also masked men snatching people off the streets, while the US military has had boots on the ground in four major cities, another state, and the nation’s capital. Last week, Illinois governor JB Pritzker went on national television and suggested federal immigration agents can be held legally accountable for how they conduct themselves. Elected officials such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia have spoken openly about a “national divorce.”
It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the brink—though of what, is the question. Ordinary, reasonable people are openly talking about whether the country is on the verge of something comparable to a slow-rolling civil conflict, if not something worse...
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