It has already begun - our side just hasn’t engaged yet.
This.
And so many on the right imagine the left as a bunch of screeching Karens and effete homosexuals with a deep aversion to firearms.
Sure, maybe at the top. But in the streets you've got hardened criminals and enforcers like Antifa who are conditioned to escalate to immediate brutal violence while many on the right have never been in a fist fight.
It's every communist revolution. The Bolsheviks emptied the prisons of violent, low IQ criminals and gave them the green light to rob, rape, and steal "for the revolution" -tasks they participated in with great enthusiasm.
Of course, after the revolution when their wanton violence was no longer needed, a few of these petty street criminals (like Stalin) would find themselves in positions of great power. Most of the rest would be marched off to a ditch and executed. Their unrestrained violence and low IQs no longer benefited the cause.
It's not a shooting war in the traditional sense, but it's a battle over control of the government. The left seems to be fighting to eliminate the opposition, while the right (the ones currently in power) are clueless as to the objective of the other side. They think they can work together and hold onto their sectors of influence.