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Posted on 10/08/2025 9:53:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. Over the past four weeks, he has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate and defund the opposition.
Trump’s assault on the left combines the use of the available tools of violent conflict — the military, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE in particular — with the prosecution of critics (and people he just doesn’t like), cuts of essential funds for liberal institutions, the use of regulation to threaten businesses with bankruptcy, the criminalization of free speech and the blackmailing of corporate America into obedience.
At the memorial service for Charlie Kirk last month in Phoenix, Stephen Miller, Trump’s top domestic policy adviser, described in great detail how the administration plans to deal with its domestic opponents: “We will not live in fear, but you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.”
For Trump and his allies, recent developments, including the government shutdown, the indictment of James Comey and the assassination of Kirk, are openings to escalate the attack on institutions and programs identified with liberalism and the Democratic Party. For the MAGA right, any crisis is an opportunity. In fact, every crisis is.
The assault has become increasingly brutal as Trump and his allies intensify their demonization of all things left of center, by which they often seem to mean anything to the left of the hard right.
Ryan Enos, a political scientist at Harvard, emailed me in response to my...
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They were a Republican paper way back then. Somebody posted pages of the 1860-1865 NYT here in 2020-2025.
Free Republic just finished a day to day account thread of the Civil War . It featured the NYT. Where were you?
What does it mean to be “afraid of civil war”? I’m pretty sure that Trump and Miller recognize how disastrous civil war would be, but they aren’t going to let current policy be derailed by vague fears of civil war.
I believe they are more akin to veiled threats.
In the shower. Personal hygiene is primary in my life.
What a pant load
Since 1851.
This entire article is one lame exercise in projection. Mega-yawn.
Good points.
“Actually we are already in a second civil war but only one side has been doing all the shooting.”
—Michael Savage discussing his new (2015) book Stop the Coming Civil War.
I followed a lot of Civil War coverage in the New York Times. It’s a great source.
-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787
The consolidation of power in the District of Columbia was the worst thing to come out of that conflict
“Europe will be forged in crises and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.”Rahmbo learned it from somewhere. He sure did not originate it.
— Jean Monnet
Why would republicans want a rematch of the last Civil War if their side won that one?
Civil War exists, the left began when they spread there virus into America.
Wow! No self-reflection at all.
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