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I read that article and found no substance in it. It cites mainly one unnamed Canadian political scientist who makes claims about “Trumpism”, with no real specific support for the claims.

It blames right wing ideologues for fomenting unrest, even civil war, when the violence and threat of civil war that has spread around the country is clearly sourced in far left ideology.

Claims of rampant police abuse, even accusations that cops are hunting down people of color to murder them; immediate claims (even by Joe Biden), supported by the very left of center mainstream media, that ANY time a person of color is killed in a police shooting it’s a racist murder, regardless of the facts; mandatory police trainings where the presenter starts the lecture with, “you are all racists” and “we all know that police officers want to put all black men in prison”; protestors marching with signs that say “ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS” and much worse; a far left official (Seattle) actually opening a police precinct to allow “protesters“ in to ransack and occupy the building while their riot was killing and injuring people and then denying access by medical responders to help them. BLM (discovered to be a very corrupt organization) not speaking out against the notion of murdering cops, pushing Marxist ideology (which has pretty thoroughly been shown to be a completely failed system and always run by the dictatorship you are concerned about; ANTIFA unapologetically calling for completely tearing down our established systems, to be replaced by, they have no idea what and causing MASSIVE destruction, it goes on and on.

NONE of the rhetoric pushed by the far left is supported by the data, except that there is a severe separation between the very rich and the very poor. Their solution is to destroy the “stagnating” middle class, disproportionately people of color, burning and looting their businesses, bankrupting hardworking families, promoting lawlessness resulting in skyrocketing murder rates (I think we’re at an average of two per week here in Portland, a relatively small “large” city.

Yes, there is threat of civil war, promoted openly by the far left. The supposed far right is mostly the reasonable right, people who have had more than enough and demand some respect and to be left alone to work (produce rather than tear down), raise and enjoy their families, have the benefit of what they EARN. Sure there are a VERY FEW unreasonable far right people, but not remotely comparable in numbers to the violent far left.

That article is an extremely biased, unsupported opinion piece, that lays the blame very much on the wrong end of the political spectrum. If a college student wrote a paper (unless it supported the far left nonsense taught now in colleges) with that complete lack of data, they would be laughed out of the classroom.