MAGA’s vision of a Second Civil War dangerously misreads America’s fragmented political geography
Calls for a Second American Civil War have become a persistent theme among extreme factions aligned with Donald Trump, particularly within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. These individuals frequently evoke the imagery of 1861, imagining a new conflict that they believe would pit Red states against Blue states in a battle for the nation’s future. However, their comparison to the first Civil War is historically and structurally flawed. A modern American civil war would not resemble the geographic simplicity of North versus South. Instead, it would be a fragmented, chaotic, and deeply internalized conflict that would devastate...
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