Civil War? Nope.

| 7:56 pm EST December 9, 2020
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Now that all fifty states have certified their results and Joe Biden has (once again) won the 2020 election, the fatalists on our side have become convinced that Trump fans are about to turn violent on a massive scale, and we’re about to have a Civil War. In fact there’s so much doomsday chatter about this, “Civil War” has begun trending on Twitter.

No, there isn’t going to be a Civil War just because some Trump supporters don’t like that he lost. Nor is there going to be a Civil War just because some republican Attorneys General signed on to a dead-end lawsuit to score some partisan political points. Nothing works that way. It just doesn’t. We have enough real problems to deal with. Let’s not invent imaginary doomsday ones.

The fatalists on our side insisted that Trump would somehow magically postpone the election. Then after they were wrong about that, they insisted that Trump would magically rig the election and win. Then after they were wrong about that and Trump lost in a blowout, they insisted that the courts would magically hand Trump the election. Now that they’re wrong about that, they’re insisting there’s going to be a Civil War. At some point we have to stop listening to these doomsday types, because they keep us from focusing on real solutions to real problems.