In 1861 geographically simple because North and South. Now everyone is everywhere. States may be red or blue but not all parts of each state is all red or all blue.
That's true, separation was never an option. If all this tension goes loud, there won't be a battlefield, or a front, there will be thousands, all over the country, ranging from skirmishes with a handful on either side up to full scale battles. And it will drag on, for years.
That's why I don't see a solution to this problem, because I don't see the trump cult ever being willing to rejoin normal society. If anyone has any good ideas, I'm yet to hear them.
The road to normalcy starts here and now. Biden will be a good transitional figure.
You're not thinking long term. What if Biden gets the presidency, but not the senate? No new legislation passed, they start holding court seats open again, waiting for the next republican president, while Biden is left to try to deal with trump's economy, and trump's virus, and trump's long list of foreign policy failures, with no effective legislature?
It's going to be 4 years of the senate spoiling, the presidency crippled, and the trump crowd blaming everything on Biden. Then after that, it's president tucker carlson, or someone equally detestable.
I 100% agree with you that a Biden presidency wouldn't be the end of the fight, it would be the beginning. But what I'm saying is, a narrow victory now might not necessarily be better than a big win a little bit later. Neither the left, nor the right, seem to have learned their lessons from this administration, so the question is, would they, given 4 more years? If the answer is no, then I don't know where you get your hope from.
