Didact,

and then you're going to be faced with the aftermath like Spain. The left has never ever accepted its defeat and they're trying to erase or memoryhole what they did in the war and put all the blame the right. And the right wants to memoryhole and defend what it did. A curse on both th.eir houses
But civil wars aren't just ugly during but also in the postwar period.

xavier

Aha! I see the discordance now. You are thinking the hard right will be central to this. You are thinking Alt Right, Alt White, and Alt Reich? Nah. They are few and, in their thought processes, almost indistinguishable from SJWs. (Their premises are different; their processes and reasoning ability, or lack thereof, are about the same).

No, the bulk of the combatants on the right will be fairly close to where I am, and I straddle the boundary between right third and middle third. Yes, I look far right to the lefties but am, in fact, almost moderate. And the people near me, the large numbers of people near me, are (excepting me, and even I can put up with it) tolerant of temporary subordination for a good reason.

Go look at the armed forces for an illustration.

Respectfully, sir, in the Armed Forces there is of course a clear chain of command and unquestioned obedience to authority. But the Hard Right is by nature anti-authoritarian. We are greatly fortunate to have a large number of ex-military men in our ranks, certainly, and in the event of a shooting war there is no doubt that such men would form the core of the militia and the ground forces.

But it must be said that the Hard Right's performance in the field so far has been patchy, at best.

Where we have united and acted under recognised, respected leadership – such as the battle with Antifa last April, again in Austin last May, and again with the Proud Boys in Portland last month, we have comprehensively routed the opposition.

But where we have been fragmented and allowed the Alt-Retard knuckleheads to LARP all over our parade, things have gone quite badly for us – such as in Charlottesville last year.

So, no, the right is going to with the War Between the Zip Codes.

On balance I tend to agree, but I am also wary of overconfidence. We may have most of the guns and ammo, but the question is how far we have to be pushed before we unite in the face of a common threat.

We WILL burn down the house to kill the flea, provided we can actually KILL that flea.

Indeed, sir. That's what worries me. When the shooting starts, there will be no civility, no code of honourable warfare, only bloodshed and violence on a truly epic scale.

I know it has to happen, sir. I just wish the death toll would be somewhat less than catastrophic in the process.

You're post triggered a reflex. Americans need to read their history of Spain from 1898 to 1936. The events have a very eerie similarity.to complement it i'de take another look at Weimar Germany and eastern Europe from 1918-1939 with the communist/fascist/nationalist
Finally François Furet's la fin d'une illusionIsabelle useful book to peruse

xavier

So, no, the right is going to with the War Between the Zip Codes. However, because we are so intermixed, because the left will fall back on the losing strategy / policy of urban terror, and because we just flat hate each other so much, the war, if it comes is going to be a complete horror story. We WILL burn down the house to kill the flea, provided we can actually KILL that flea. And that scene with Chamberlain and the surrendering Confederates? As it would play out they'd be marched to a ditch and then shot into it.