The Economist Pans Author's Warning vs U.S. Civil War

The Economist has panned a US academician for warning that the country is ripe for a civil war in a comment published.

Photo Insert: At the center of the civil war debate is defeated former US President Donald Trump.

Reviewing Barbara Walter’s “How Civil Wars Start,” The Economist said, “it is hard to overstate the danger Donald Trump poses to America and the world, but Barbara Walter manages it.”

“Trump scorns democratic norms, stirs up racial division, propagates the big lie that he won re-election in 2020, encouraged a coup attempt on January 6, 2021—and might win the presidency again in 2024, it added.

“Ms. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, rightly decries these sins. But she goes further. Thanks partly to Mr. Trump, and partly to the underlying trends he has exploited, she claims America is at risk of civil war.”

Yet, talk of civil war had been circling all over the US like murmurating starlings since 1897, when the US Supreme Court legitimized segregation laws in the case against Homer Plessey, who deliberately sat on a train seat reserved for whites. It has gained traction among fringe white supremacist groups who propound boogaloo, an armed uprising, against the federal government for the past several decades.

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