Experts are warning that the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown in Minnesota could quickly get out of hand and could even result in a second US civil war.
Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, wrote in a Wednesday column published by the Guardian that she and her colleagues at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) conducted a tabletop exercise in October 2024 that simulated potential outcomes if a US president were to carry out law enforcement operations similar to the ones being conducted by the Trump administration with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota.
“In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s National Guard,” Finkelstein explained. “When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces.”
It did at the time, because in fascist countries the only ones who were truly organised and had a plan were fascists, so they overpowered the resistance that couldn’t get their shit together for long enough to combat this new and unprecedented narrative.
Now in new fascist countries, the narrative needs to be combated is old and very precedented, but people that could form resistance groups don’t do that, instead they’re doing the opposite of what needs to be done: sitting around alone in their homes, clutching their handguns, and shitposting on the internet, hoping that when icetapo comes to them, they will heroically shoot them all and save the day.