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'There will be a civil war': Trump fans rage after Georgia judge orders trial to proceed
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There won't be a civil war unless\until the prospect of a civil war starts to look profitable to the .1%.
Used to agree with that, now it's a maybe. The US elite created the seeds of MAGA and the christian right back in the days of Reagan, and they've fully lost control of it, Trump has at least some measure of control on the group, but I feel it's only because he's pretending to do what they want.
Just as with the actual US revolution, the movement was started by the 1% for their own interests. Which they gaslit and orchestrated for their own gain until they lost control of it.
For the uninitiated: they started riots to pressure lawmakers to not pass a new tax on them, not the working class, and new laws preventing them from defrauding London based banks with what amounts to wire fraud by regular mail by creating shell companies in different colonies, getting loans for exploration and land use, and then closing the "company" and repeating.in a different colony.
Fascinated to learn more about that, if you have any good resources. That's not the typical framing we get in our US high school level interpretation of events.
I would highly recommend "Crucible of War" by Fred Anderson. It's a bit dry at first, but picks up.
Very briefly, it's about the lead up to the seven years war(aka French-Indian war), the war itself, the post-war and lead up to the revolution. The author states that he feels you can't look at the revolution as its own thing without all of the pieces that led to it.