Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 7, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Thomas B. Edsall

[x]

They were a Republican paper way back then. Somebody posted pages of the 1860-1865 NYT here in 2020-2025.

[central_va]

Free Republic just finished a day to day account thread of the Civil War . It featured the NYT. Where were you?

[x]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

...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.

[Texas Eagle]

In the shower. Personal hygiene is primary in my life.

[MileHi]

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.

What a pant load

[Jim Noble]

Or were they around in 1860?

Since 1851.

[Antoninus]

This entire article is one lame exercise in projection. Mega-yawn.

[frank ballenger]

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.

[mairdie]

I followed a lot of Civil War coverage in the New York Times. It’s a great source.

[Paal Gulli]

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."

-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787

[mrmeyer]

The consolidation of power in the District of Columbia was the worst thing to come out of that conflict

[Olog-hai]

“Europe will be forged in crises and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.”

— Jean Monnet

Rahmbo learned it from somewhere. He sure did not originate it.

[dznutz]

Why would republicans want a rematch of the last Civil War if their side won that one?

[cowboyusa]

Civil War exists, the left began when they spread there virus into America.

[Agatsu77]

Wow! No self-reflection at all.