The Second American Civil War: "War it will still be"

 

That's the conclusion of J. Robert Smith, writing at The Federalist.

What’s triggering the second American civil war?  Trump’s unexpected election in 2016, and his four highly successful years -- despite implacable opposition and attempted subversion by the Democrat-led axis -- and the prospect of a final Trump term, when the president would not only consolidate his achievements, but push new initiatives to break the corruption and imperiousness that infects the nation’s “elite”… these were the Rubicon.  Anti-liberty forces have long been marching through the nation’s institutions.  But this became a double-time as they grasped Trump’s primal threat to their fortunes, present and future. 

Liberty’s enemies have opted for brinkmanship to settle matters, once and for all.  They haven’t mustered armies to seize Washington, D.C. (would they have to anyway?) and occupy red states.  Give them credit.  They aim to achieve their coup without firing a shot.  Call it a velvet-gloved coup d’état.  Some are terming it a “Color Revolution.”  The war they’re waging to seize power is conspiratorial, innovative, multidimensional.  It relies on subterfuge, misinformation, misdirection, audacity, and a gamble: that while millions of patriots may now squawk and shake their fists, they will go no further… that when Biden is installed as president, and the cabal he fronts holds the levers of power, resistance will be futile, anyway.  Anger will give way to sullen resignation. 

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Antiliberty forces -- Democrats, leftists, Big Tech barons, monied interests of all stripes, Deep State players, and other establishment elements (and lurking in Great Oz-like fashion, Xi Jinping) -- underestimate patriots.  They regard working- and middle-class Americans as inferiors -- rubes to be had.  Anti-liberty forces occupy many -- if not most -- of the power centers in the nation.  And, as stated, they’re pursuing a highly complex silent coup.  The war being waged is far too sophisticated and devious for patriots to ever figure out, much less counter effectively, they reason.                        

The enemy’s conceit is its Achilles heel.  As of January 20 and moving ahead -- if there’s a pretender president -- millions of patriots will remain defiantly unreconciled to consigning American liberty to history’s scrapheap.  Patriots are neither complacent nor fearful.  They’re confirmed in their dedication to the Republic and resolved to restore it to its fullest measure.  Patriots will not surrender to tyrants what God granted as a birthright.  They appreciate that life without liberty is base existence.

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Don’t let this phony war fool you.  The present is deceptive.  The cabal that failing and corrupt Joe Biden fronts knows that if it succeeds in installing Biden, it will have 48 months to cement its hold not just on presidential elections, but elections down ballot.  48 months to scuttle Trump’s achievements and impose its own radical, antiliberty polices and edicts, thereby forever changing the United States.  If successful, the Constitution won’t be worth the parchment it’s written on.  And if Trump returns to the White House?  War it will still be. 

We’ve entered momentous and perilous times, comparable to the four years of the Civil War and the eight years of the Revolution.  How this war evolves is unknowable.  Wars tend to have lives of their own.  No patriot should assume a favorable outcome.  The days ahead must be hard fought, for victory must be hard won.  It’s simply the price of freedom.

There's more at the link.

I've got nothing to add to that, except that the struggle for freedom is both necessary and worthwhile.  I'm proud to be an American - by adoption rather than birth, but nevertheless an American.  When entering law enforcement service, I swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic".  That oath, was, and is still, binding on my conscience.  That oath has no expiration date.

Peter