“emulsified”?
I had to think about that for a bit as well.
What I think she’s saying is that unlike the War of Northern Aggression we are not geographically separated. Leftists and Rightists live next door to each other.
It’s going to make target selection a nightmare.
She’s a writer. The usage stopped me, too, for a moment, especially when she used it more than once.
But you know what? It works. Think about it: emulsion is a mixture of two liquids normally not mixable. One is dispersed evenly throughout the other in still-distinct globules. But you have a very difficult time separating them. They will separate into distinct layers if left still, but when mixed, you cannot target one liquid to the exclusion of the other.
Just one reason Sarah is traditionally published in a very politically-correct genre. She is a wordsmith.
And I noticed she used “progrom” instead of “pogrom”