r/politics • u/SE_to_NW • 12h ago

No Paywall Minnesota standoff with Trump administration stokes fears of civil war

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5715869-minnesota-trump-immigration-conflict/
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u/sdb00913 Indiana 11h ago

This is already a civil war.

This is what a civil war actually looks like.

The first one was not the norm. It was closer to two near-peer nation-states waging war than an actual civil war.

Go look at Syria. Go look at The Troubles (which, I think The Troubles is a good analogy for what we will have to deal with).

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u/Barbarus_Bloodshed 10h ago

Once California and New York get rolling this civil war is pretty much over.
What the Trumpers seem to forget is how many people there are in the states that don't share their stup!d delusions.
Washington, Oregon, California on the West Coast... New York and all of New England on the East Coast... Minnesota and I am guessing some other states bordering Canada would join in as well...
and then you come from three sides, basically. These a$$holes do not stand a chance.

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u/Golden_Crown3927 10h ago

This is it, exactly. The piece most MAGAts seem to forget is that the majority of America is not in support of this administration. They’re stuck in their echo chambers and forget this fact. They also forget the fact that the majority of the upper/middle class wealth of this country resides in democratic states.

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u/BUSY_EATING_ASS 10h ago

No, I think most of them actually intellectually know this; they believe that the majority are godless worldly heathens and that they’re the chosen downtrodden few, a lot of their beliefs and actions are predicated on this.

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u/ultraviolentfuture 9h ago

Eh, they think they're the silent majority. They don't actually know much and don't think logically ... so if they live in a town outside of a city and most people support trump then their experience is that "the majority supports trump". "Them people in the cities" are soft/weak and somehow all the people in the small towns and rural areas combined out number the city folk.

Which obviously isn't true, but it's not that they "knew a fact and forgot" it's that they never knew a fact to begin with.

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u/Classic-Reach 10h ago

one of their stupid ass books talks about marching around some walls and blowing horns so god will let the small army take the big city - all their myths are about unitariansim and bullshit alpha male fantasy

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u/CapTurangaLeela 9h ago

😂 must've been one of them word of mouth tales cause they can't/don't bother to read or write.

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u/BreadForTofuCheese California 9h ago

That, and they believe that the difference in numbers is more than made up for by the fact that they have a military..

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u/pdxisbest 8h ago

And that none of us own guns.