Opinion pieces presently abound in comparisons of today’s GOP and its tactics to the Confederacy. There is a large element of truth in these. However, at bottom, the sentiment for secession is coupled, among most of its adherents, with a realization that secession is impossible.
What is more possible and more pernicious is the potential success of a sub rosa coup, one that sabotages the rule of law and majority rule; one that renders the election of Democratic Presidents more or less irrelevant; one that succeeds in allowing the GOP to control America from a minority position. That struggle, a Cold Civil War, is very much in progress.
Let’s take five current and major examples:
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