Will There Be Blood?
The last time America faced an election where two incompatible cultures contended was 1860. Then, the face-off was between the industrial culture of the North and the agri-culture of the South (as Wendell Berry reminds us, agriculture is culture). The result was the bloodiest war in American history. Now, the fight is between cultural Marxism, represented by Democrats, and traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian culture, defended (imperfectly) by the Republicans. Will there be blood this time as there was last?
If President Trump is re-elected, as I expect, we will probably see a few riots conjured up by antifa/BLM. They will largely be confined to cities whose governments tolerate them, places such as Seattle, Portland, and Oakland, California. Elsewhere, the cops will be on full alert and any violence will be put down quickly. The Left will realize that the antics of antifa, BLM, and the anarchists cost them the election, so even the Leftist mayors and governors will be looking to maintain order. In all, violence should not amount to much.
If Biden wins but Republicans keep the Senate, I would again anticipate little or no violence. Biden will have to govern from the center (his probable preference) because extreme measures won’t make it through the Senate. Such a Democratic Presidency would largely be a repeat of the Obama years, which will do major damage to the economy. In 2022, the economic downturn should give the Republicans the House and a larger Senate majority, rendering Biden largely a figurehead. In other words, politics will be carried on within the political system, not in the streets.
If Biden wins and the Democrats take the Senate, the picture grows darker. Everything will depend on whether Biden can say no to the crazies. If he can’t, some actions would rip the country apart. One would be abolishing ICE, opening the southern border and saying, "Welcome to the country where everything is free!” As vast caravans of peasants begin to move north, Texas and Arizona, possibly also New Mexico, would mobilize their National Guards and send them to keep the border closed. President Biden would respond by federalizing those Guard units and ordering them home. If, at that point, the Governors and Adjutant Generals of those states refused the order, Biden would either have to back down or send active duty forces to fight the Guard. I think the active-duty units would either refuse the orders or fragment along racial lines. Secession would be a real possibility, and the country would be in free-fall toward widespread Fourth Generation war.
Similarly, if Democrats pack the Supreme Court, subsequent actions by that Court could dissolve the Union. One would be ruling the Second Amendment does not protect private gun ownership. Another would be finding that “hate speech”, which is any defiance of cultural Marxism, is not protected by the First Amendment. Both of these measures would widely and rightly be seen as attempts to create a totalitarian, ideological state, a new Soviet America based not on Marxism-Leninism, but cultural Marxism. Armed resistance would be general.
The last scenario is an election where the result is in dispute. Let’s say that in Pennsylvania, whose Democrat-dominated Supreme Court just ruled mis-matched signatures do not invalidate a ballot, the Democrats “win” because such ballots are counted, but would otherwise lose. President Trump and his supporters would (rightly) not accept that outcome because many of those ballots would be fraudulent. If Pennsylvania made the difference in the Electoral College, either outcome, a win for Biden or President Trump, might not be seen as legitimate. Here too, the potential for widespread violence would be high.
At the root of these potentials for violence and Fourth Generation war on American soil lie three facts the Left does not perceive. First, most Americans will fight to prevent an ideological dictatorship in this country, especially one where the ideology, cultural Marxism, condemns them as inherently evil (i.e. white). Second, the government's instruments of coercion, the police and the military, are manned mostly by the Right. At a certain point, they will refuse orders from the Left and go over to the opposition. Third, the federal government’s legitimacy is already thin and actions such as packing the Supreme Court may collapse it altogether. Each of these outcomes can bring systemic collapse and dis-union. All of them together would certainly do so.
We live in interesting times.