The next US civil war is already here — we just refuse to see it

The right has recognised that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions

FLASHBACK: Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC before storming it on January 6, 2021. Roll on to 2022 and the United States has never faced an institutional crisis quite like the one it is facing now. Right now militias train and arm themselves in preparation for the fall of the Republic. Picture: Jon Cherry/Getty

Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming.

On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated people in the United States could not see it coming. Even when Confederate soldiers began their bombardment of Fort Sumter, nobody believed that conflict was inevitable. The north was so unprepared for the war they had no weapons.