There won’t be a civil war with the left. There will be a battle WITHIN the left that will fracture it, the hard-left turning on the elite with such savagery that the elites will flee to the right to save their *sses. We’ll take them in (perhaps foolishly, but we will) and together we’ll put down the hard left without a shot fired.
The elite only indulge left-wing nonsense because they feel so secure in their power and privilege that they can indulge the nonsense to feel cool and nice.
But that can’t hold. The hardcore left can’t stop with Exxon and Raytheon — they will go after Google, Facebook; Goldman Sachs and Bank of America; and the corporations that control Hollywood. It will go after the private schools, and test-selected public schools, and nice suburban schools, that enable the elites to live in metropolitan areas. It will go after Israel. It will continue to “decriminalize” and “decarcelize” until nice rich liberals are once again getting bricks to the back of their heads if they take a wrong turn on a Saturday night.
Your post #228, my views exactly.