Is America on the ‘cusp of a second civil war’? Conservative leaders think so

The growing tensions in America between statue-toppling leftists and Republicans could culminate in a “new civil war,” according to Rush Limbaugh and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

American Thinker commentator Tom Trinko thinks so as well. According to Trinko, the first “shots” in this “war” have already been fired, “after Charlottesville when many Democratic leaders claimed that they had the right to use physical force against anyone they didn’t like.”

There was outrage and mourning across America after a white nationalist drove his car into an anti-racism gathering in Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The anti-racism rally was in response to a far-right rally opposing the removal of a Confederate statue. Some attendees of the far-right rally touted Swastikas.

One of the rally’s organizers tweeted that Heyer’s death was “payback.”

The nationalist (and sometimes overtly racist) “alt-right” and left-wing “antifa” (anti-fascists who tend to act like fascists) groups represent the most extreme sides of this civil war.

But it really comes down to a battle between big government, anti-free speech fascists who want to “distort, erase, and impugn our history,” according to Limbaugh, and those who don’t.

“Facing a continued loss of power because their radical agenda is toxic to most Americans, the Democrat leadership … have decided that they have the right to physically attack anyone who stands in their way,” wrote Trinko. “Like their Nazi and Communist forefathers, today’s Democrat leaders are comfortable sending swarms of Brownshirts out to beat into submission anyone who stands between them and power.”

“While the first American Civil War was fought to protect that particularly Democrat institution slavery, the new civil war Democrat elites are starting to wage is about transferring power from the people to the rich white oligarchs, judges, and government bureaucrats,” he continued. “The time for pretending that Democrat leadership is patriotic is over. It’s time to shout from the rooftops that the Democratic leadership is a fascist cabal intent on overthrowing democracy.”

Buchanan, Limbaugh, and Trinko argued that Democrat and left-wing leaders are subverting the rule of law and freedom of speech in an alarming manner.

“Like ISIS, which smashed the storied ruins of Palmyra, and the al-Qaida rebels who ravaged the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu, the new barbarism has come to America,” wrote Buchanan. “This is going to become a blazing issue, not only between but within the parties.”

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The problem with removing “offensive” statues, those on the right argue, is that it doesn’t stop with just taking down Confederate monuments.

A statue of Joan of Arc was vandalized in New Orleans. “F*** Law,” someone wrote in red graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial after Charlottesville.

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