An EMP will definitely kill. People will start killing each other, indiscriminately.
Antifa/BLM Unplugged.
And liberal governments can say: “It’s not our fault! They did it to themselves!” Though how these parasites expect to live well with most of the producers dead is beyond me.
The EMP shutting down America thing is a disaster fantasy, disaster porn.
It is based on old technology.
A Carrington Event could take out a bigger chunk, but even then, not everything would go down.
Finally, to create an EMP someone would need to set off a large nuke above the Continental US. Consider, just for a second, what that would mean.
I know thinking about the US in a post apocalyptic wasteland will get the juices going on a Sunday morning. The thing is most fantasies are just make believe.