The Ongoing Second American Civil War
When the American Civil War ended, and the diseased nation lifted itself from the ashes for its Reconstruction era, do we suppose that the average historian believed this to be a one-off anomaly? Or, is it more probable that an astute historian would recognize the inequality, division, and greed to be inherent defects of the experimental nation?
Let us suppose we do not know the answer. But if the second theory is the correct one, we will know it to be true the day dawn breaks on a second American Civil War. Yet what would this look like?
For formal definition of a “civil war,” let us turn to what James Fearon has to say on the subject. He is the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and a leading authority on wartime history.
Fearon defines a civil war as “a violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies.”
Perhaps this definition rings a bell, or echoes just a little too familiar in the mind. Let us explore why, in the context of today’s social and political climate.
Take, for example, Operation Metro Surge, the immigration raid carried out by ICE at the behest of the Trump regime in January 2026. Minneapolis and Saint Paul were the initial targets, and it rapidly spread throughout the rest of Minnesota.
As far as we know, at least three people were murdered: Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, who were shot to death by ICE agents; and Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, who was killed by “presumed suicide,” according to the $1.24 billion privately-run Camp East Montana detention center that imprisoned him.
Let us not pretend that any of this was uncharacteristic of the Trump administration. Know that Jonathan Ross, the shooter of Renee Good, was recorded via bodycam calling her a “fucking bitch” after shooting her through the front windshield. She had just had a polite exchange with the officers, and was attempting to safely leave.
After the shooting, ICE agents prevented witnesses from providing medical aid or comfort to her. One of these people attempting to help her even stated clearly, "I'm a physician!" which was met with a callous "I don't care."
Ross has faced no charges. He has been fiercely protected by the administration and its legions of drooling troglodytic voters, who collectively embrace state-sponsored execution of citizens on the street as preferable to losing face with political adversaries. In April 2026, New York Governor Kathy Hochul demanded to know Ross’ whereabouts after it was reported he still works for ICE, now in New York.
Alex Pretti’s murderers are Raymundo Gutierrez and Jesus Ochoa, who executed him on the sidewalk after he attempted to help someone being physically assaulted by ICE. After the killing, federal forces quickly arrived to scrub the scene, arrest witnesses, and clean up the evidence.
And after it was all done, all of America went back to work the following morning. Everything was still the same. But should it be?
Even now, after they protected these murderers, they are today charging 15 individuals in Minnesota with blocking ICE vehicles during the operation. Their charges include interstate threats, interstate stalking, assault on a federal officer, destruction of government property, and more. They are being linked to Antifa, short for “anti-fascist.”
There is no centralized Antifa - it is merely a word used by protesting groups to state in clear terms that they are against fascism. Yet the regime is using this catch-all “Antifa,” and per a September 2025 executive order the president declared it a “domestic terrorist organization.”
In this circus, right is wrong and wrong is right. The White House defends murder, and in the same breath brings the full weight of the justice system upon those who protest against their violence. And in this circus, we suck it all down with a smile.
How easily we can turn off our brains, and silence our sense of right and wrong.
“a violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies.”
A violent conflict is most assuredly being fought. Metro Surge did not exist in a vacuum. It was not an anomaly. It was only the brightest ember on the burning wreckage that is the United States in 2026. It drew attention. But the same malevolent forces which enacted and defended it have been doing the same thing, in many more places, nearly every day since then.
They have only learned how to be quieter. How to save the atrocities until away from the cameras.
Who might these organized groups be? Take your pick. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security. The Trump Administration, the Federal Government, the Congressional Republicans, or even the Supreme Court. All are complicit. All are willing participants in a campaign of racially-motivated terror, violence, and intimidation.
They took power in the 2024 Presidential election. The election was manipulated, even if the extent of such manipulation is not publicly known, for there are none in Washington, D.C. with the power now to even attempt an investigation.
At best, the Republican party is guilty of exploiting AI and its (very recent, and very intentional) grip on all major social media platforms to steer all of the messaging that users are exposed to. A racist, far-right theory that encourages white Americans to take back their nation from “invaders at the southern border” should not gain momentum where the average user skews younger, or skews female.
But when ten thousand regular-looking people agree with it, and repost it, it lends itself legitimacy. It makes impressionable users linger a moment, paying more attention to the propaganda than they ordinarily would. Yet those ten thousand totally normal people? Bots. Programmed AI users, loudly proclaiming gospel truth on every unimaginably unhinged barnacle of an idea.
I would argue that in this war, the motivation of the ruling party is less to take power, and more so to keep it.
So then - what might we make of the current climate? Are we in a state of civil war, and CNN forgot to tell us?
The signs are all there. We see them. Their violence. Yet what is a war with one side? Let us consider the opposing party of this hypothetical analogy of a civil war.
If one side is fought by the Republican party, with all of its wealth and all of its leaders working hand-in-hand with the slackjawed cultists that still support them, then the natural opposite would be the Democratic party.
The lawmakers that have their votes toward progress and financial relief forever invalidated should be furious. This stopped being a difference of finance and policy prioritization long ago; one side attempts to pass beneficial laws, and the other seeks to impede them. One side seeks to protect consumers from monopolistic corporations, and the other seeks to protect corporations from every semblence of accountability or responsibility. One side prioritizes social equality, and the other pursues tribalism up to and including extermination of undesirable social groups.
So how angry are these Democratic members of Congress? Not very. Save for a couple of outliers (e.g. AOC), these spineless slugs are content to frown and complain. But they will not lift a finger to do more. Either the current Democratic leadership is composed of paid-for controlled opposition, specifically designed to feign disagreement with the regime, or it is nothing more than a conglomerate of the most pitiful, weak-willed, useless idiots ever assembled at high office. You would find more spine on a jellyfish.
Regardless of which of the two it is, the Democratic party has displayed shameful powerlessness. Biden, who swore “when they go low, we go high,” has delivered us unto Hell.
When they break the rules, we obey them.
When they abandon all norms and precedent, we double down on our rigidity.
When they violently invade the Capitol, smash windows, defecate on the floor and smear it on the walls, loot offices, kill security agents, replace American flags with MAGA flags, and force Congress into hiding in the underground bunkers - all in an afternoon - and the President himself acquits them of all charges and moves taxpayer money to pay these screeching baboons for their good service - we say “that’s wrong, you shouldn’t do that.”
This November the motto may be “vote blue, no matter who.” But make no mistake. In the future we must abandon BOTH of these parties. We must redesign how elections are run, and how parties participate. The 2-party system has been manipulated such that we have arrived at the doorstep of Nazi America. Unless corporate money is expunged from politics, we will never see a president that cares whether the average citizen lives happily or not, is healthy or not, is alive or not.
So - does that leave only Democratic citizens, liberal voters, to fight the other side of this war? Is it more than that, such that we might say non-Republicans are the other side? Dare we say it’s all the non-MAGA people who would oppose their violent tyranny?
I would say it is no one.
Because no one is here to help us.
When they shoot guns, we shoot cameras.
When people are detained, and shipped to foreign, impoverished prisons, and their families never know what happened to them… we sigh. We complain. We might get angry. We might scream.
We might see the future for the bloody altar to wealth that it is, but still we do what we do best. Nothing. Because doing something implies consequences.
And as we have seen, consequences only apply to one side.
Consequences may include death.
May include prison.
May include job loss - and in America, job loss means insurance loss. And if one has no insurance, then one cannot afford healthcare. One can die alone, freezing in a ditch, if one cannot pay the hospital - which is part of a larger conglomerate - whose CEO might be worth between $50 million and $1 billion.
Let us conclude with what we may see to be true, based on all apparent evidence:
- A civil war, or a conflict akin to one, is currently being fought.
- Only one side is fighting. The other side is content to wait until a line in the sand is crossed.
- Thanks to an asymmetrical Justice Department, and thanks as well to the various ways our society has been structured to actively exploit the average citizen from birth until death, the defending side may never see a line so bleak, so inexcusable, that they would fight back.
Where might that leave us? It’s free to speculate. Take your pick. Mass discontent. Mass depression. Mass poverty. If they become convinced AI can replace the average worker, count on mass death.
The first American Civil War was fought on the most outrageously, cartoonishly evil of premises - that one human has the right to own other humans. Sanewashing and indoctrination taught us from childhood it was really about “states’ rights vs. federal rights,” even should the states claim a right to slavery or other crimes against humanity.
Why should the second American Civil War be for any less depraved a reason?
Considering the stark difference in what today’s weapons of war are capable of, and considering that the modern division of America was seeded with differences of ideology, philosophy and religion - rather than geographical separation - there may be no nation to Reconstruct on the other side.
"We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
~ Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation