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A Civil War Hasn't Come to America, a Cold War Has
The heralds of disaster are hard at work right now.
They’re prowling social media with dire prophecies, wielding megaphones in ramped-up rally crowds, and forecasting doom in sweaty Sunday sermons.
They warn us that a civil war is coming.
Such threats are empty salvos made of hollow words, the toothless bluster of paper tigers. They are the last refuge of terrified bullies, realizing that they are on the wrong side of morality and of history.
They’re also a few years too late.
The actual war began long ago.
A 55-year-old mother of three from Madison, Wisconsin, recently opened up to me about…
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