From celebrities calling on citizens to take to the streets, to members of Congress calling for the public harassment of White House officials, to mob justice at restaurants is the US heading toward a new kind of Civil War?
Well, some people think the seeds of a new Civil War have already been sown and in a recent article, University of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds argued in a USA Today column that this new war is indeed well underway.
Reynolds was echoing similar comments from political scientist Thomas Schaller who wrote in a recent Bloomberg column that America is at the beginning of a soft civil war, and author Tom Ricks who agreed that the country seems to be lurching in that direction.
Much of the recent disquiet has been spurred on by the Trump administrations zero tolerance immigration policies and the decision to separate children from their parents at the US-Mexico border, but things have been bubbling up since Trump took office 18 months ago.
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