'They are preparing for war': An expert on civil wars discusses where political extremists are takin

[Hekate]

4. As you say, that is your opinion. Unlike the author of the book and her colleagues, you haven't ...

… spent decades collecting data and sifting it for patterns.

Nor have I, but oddly enough, after 4 years of a Trump presidency and a literal insurrection, I do believe the monsters and hate-mongers among us seriously intend to do exactly what they say they plan to do.

The DC insurrection was mocked early on as “the beer-belly putsch”, probably in an attempt to whistle past the graveyard, given how shaken we all were.

Then someone with a better grasp of history wrote an article about the actual Beer Hall Putsch. We all know it failed. And then something-something Hitler became Chancellor. That something-something took 10 years — Hitler never gave up, and his followers never gave up, and out of their success came the death camps and gas chambers, 6 million dead Jews, and IIRC nearly that number of Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political opponents, clergy, gays, Blacks, Slavic peoples, mentally disabled, POWs and Resistance fighters, artists….

Just sayin.’ Evil walks among us, and has awakened.