Archived The True Story of #CivilWar2 and #CivilWarPotluck (wired.com)
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Archived The True Story of #CivilWar2 and #CivilWarPotluck (wired.com)
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'Robert Jeffress, who implied, among other things, that impeachment would be tantamount to civil war. '
'The hashtags #CivilWar2, #CivilWarSignup, and #CivilWarPotluck burst into being, bearing picnic foods and other battle supplies. '
'Expecting or even anticipating a Second Civil War has been a far-right meme since, well, probably 1865, they’ve just been calling it "the race war" instead. ', " It was during Roof's era—the Trayvon Martin era, the Ferguson era, the Obama era—that seeing race war threats reformulated as predictions of a full-on second Civil War started becoming more commonplace on far-right forums."
'Many post-Reformation white supremacists took "the race war" as an inevitability, a natural consequence of this madcap equality experiment people are trying to run—and lots of them still do. '
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