Robert C. Koehler: Are we on the verge of Civil War II?
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 19, 2023
4 minutes
“Folks keep talking about another civil war. One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.”
The words — actually a 2019 Facebook post — are those of then-Iowa Republican congressman Steve King, loosing a puerile smirk as he stirred the pot of violence on the American political right. The politics of stupid has intensified since then, as white supremacy and fear of the Great Replacement Theory take over the GOP.
Are we truly on the brink of a civil war? What, indeed, is a civil war? When does violence move from being random and
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