I love these guys who suddenly see civil war looming. I saw it decades ago and began predicting it, to others, in conversation in 1995. I was calling it all going down in about 20 years. As political predictions go that’s calling it dead on.
John Quincy Adams and John Calhoun “called it” about thirty five years ahead of time of the first civil war—neither wanted to see it happen, both wanted to figure out a compromise that could work, but both agreed there were major differences that could not be resolved.