I suspect Joe Biden knows how Abe Lincoln felt in 1860?

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21. There is a simple but important difference though

There can be no civil war today because there is no convenient geographical separation between the sides, and today people do not have a stronger tribal identity linked to their state than they do with the nation as a whole as was very common in the early 19th century. Probably the worst possible outcome would be a protracted violent insurgency with acts of terrorism, which would be treated by the authorities as a criminal rather than military matter. The worst outcome of this in turn would likely be a "temporary" abridgement of the Bill of Rights and the whole country coming to resemble the one in Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil. Which would be bad, of course, but anyone hoping for waves of blue and gray clashing on the borderland fields would be disappointed.