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Perhaps I wrote too many papers on the Civil War to find the jokes amusing, but we have 500M guns in this country & the Civil War had Americans killing each other even within families, women--including women held as slaves-- being raped, and a sundered nation for decades.
620k people died in the Civil War and nearly 2M were injured. There were only 30M people in the US when the Civil War began--21M in the North, 9M in the South. The destruction was phenomenal. These are the thoughts I have when Trump tweets blithely about Civil War.
Think about who the immediate victims would be if this white nationalist president radicalized his base. Women. POC. Immigrants. Muslims & Jews. LGBTQ. Disabled.
The excuses for wholesale slaughter would be myriad. We know Trump admires brutal dictators. He wants to be one.
The excuses for wholesale slaughter would be myriad. We know Trump admires brutal dictators. He wants to be one.
