Guns, hatred and insanity

A person films Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump and Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice at a fireside chat during the Moms for Liberty National "Joyful Warriors" Summit, in Washington, US, August 30, 2024. [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

Everyone is talking about who will win the elections in the United States. What they're not talking about as much as they should is what will happen in America after the elections, especially if the result is very close. There are many signs on the horizon telling us that we cannot rule anything out, not even some form of civil war or states looking to secede because they do not accept the outcome.

Up until 2020, such scenarios appeared over-the-top, even the stuff of fiction. After the storming of Congress of January 6, 2021, and the two recent assassination attempts against Donald Trump, however, such scenarios are the subject of serious discussion in closed circles in the US, but also outside of them.

The support enjoyed by the former president cannot be explained in the typical terms of political analysis. More like a "movement," it has even been described as a ...

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