The US midterm elections are held on November 6, 2018. Federal offices up for election are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and the full terms for 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate. Conventional wisdom has it, that the party in power will lose bigly. A "blue waive" is coming. But is it? Some liberals would rather dispense with elections altogether.
Liberals Announce Plan to Crush Normal Americans in a New “Civil War” (Spoiler: It’s Not a Great Plan)... https://t.co/FkfuBxrT4f— JW AXSOM πΊπΈ (@jwaxsom) April 9, 2018
UPDATE: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey aroused controversy after labeling a Medium article “great” that claimed there’s no “bipartisan way forward” in the United States and that the country is engaged in a “fundamental conflict between two worldviews that must be resolved in short order.”
Dorsey shared the Medium article on his personal Twitter account Thursday night, with the accompanying acclaim that it was a “great read.” Author and media consultant Peter Leyden and political commentator Ruy Teixeira argued in the article titled “The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War” that America is already in the midst of a second major domestic conflict of sorts and the way out is for the rest of the country to imitate California. (More )
This is no ordinary political moment. Trump is not the reason this is no ordinary time — he’s simply the most obvious symptom that reminds us all of this each day. The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war. Just the phrase “civil war” is harsh, and many people may cringe. It brings up images of guns and death, the bodies of Union and Confederate soldiers. America today is nowhere near that level of conflict or at risk of such violence. However, America today does exhibit some of the core elements that move a society from what normally is the process of working out political differences toward the slippery slope of civil war. We’ve seen it in many societies in many previous historical eras, including what happened in the United States in 1860. (More)
Understanding the Context of the New American Civil War
This is no ordinary political moment. Trump is not the reason this is no ordinary time — he’s simply the most obvious symptom that reminds us all of this each day. The best way to understand politics in America today is to reframe it as closer to civil war. Just the phrase “civil war” is harsh, and many people may cringe. It brings up images of guns and death, the bodies of Union and Confederate soldiers. America today is nowhere near that level of conflict or at risk of such violence. However, America today does exhibit some of the core elements that move a society from what normally is the process of working out political differences toward the slippery slope of civil war. We’ve seen it in many societies in many previous historical eras, including what happened in the United States in 1860. (More)
GORKA: THE PRESIDENT WILL NEVER GIVE UP!
Watch @SebGorka's broadcast: DON’T be angry. DON’T be worried. The President will never give up @realdonaldtrump https://t.co/ISJ4lFdOQX— ☆ ΖΞ±ΡΡΞ±Ξ·∂ΡΞ± π·ππ (@KassandraTroy) April 11, 2018
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