Trump, Bannon and the Coming Crisis

[David Horn]

(02-07-2017, 01:11 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote: Increasingly, I can no longer dismiss out of hand the possibility of a cold civil war, roughly along red and blue lines, and perhaps leading to the dissolution of our republic, much as happened with the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.  And even that seems farfetched.

But armed conflict?  Are we indeed nearing the flashpoint--like the parlays of old--where the generals of two sides arrayed for battle finally say to one another, "Enough talk, it's war now!"

Do you discount violence entirely, or only the potential for an armed conflict?  There's a lot of anger out there, and Trump has working the audience.  I still don't see him succeeding, but I think he can trigger a mess if he wishes.  As a professional glad-hander, he seems ill suited to the task.