People who claim that we are close to a civil war are delusional or perhaps just marketing their band of bat-sh!t craziness.
The author needs to get out of his cubicle more frequently and talk with people.
Sorry.
Right now we are more divided than we were before the civil war.
The only things saving us from a civil war are bread and circuses, or, in our case, welfare and cheap cable.
Those and the fact the divisions are not binary, but multi-factional. As soon as the sides break down to two or three, and the power or cable goes out, it’s on.
THe bad news is that the next civil war will look more like Lebanon than like the US Civil War.