I'm not trying to burst your bubble, OP, but political violence is clearly becoming quite normalized. Frankly, since 2016, interpersonal random political violence was normal against anyone who wore a red hat due to the massive apologetics for Antifa. This included kicks to the head, stick beating, mace attacks, being punched in the head with brass knuckles, and more.

Then with the 2020 Summer of Love Riots we had an open insurrection and attack on the White House on May 29th, mass race rioting, open support for ethnic hatred attacks, the Red Terror Campaign against Canadian Catholics, the support of inter-personal violence from Covid, street take-overs, several calls for mass ethnic violence, secessionist movements in several Leftist cities, public protests with armed racist communist militias (The Not Fucking Around Coalition if you remember those guys), IED attacks on federal court houses, and hostages being punted in the head, Antifa activists gunning people down in the street, and much, much, more.

After this, things have gotten much more serious. 30% of people in Washington DC believe anyone accused of a crime on January 6th should be executed. Another 30% of Democrats believed that during Covid, if you didn't get an injection, you should be forcibly removed from your home, placed into a camp, and forcibly injected. Since the October 7th attacks on Hamas we've witnessed the Left openly celebrate mass murder, genocide, and terrorism. They explicitly celebrated killing civilians and children which their terrorist groups openly broadcasted. Academicians have explicitly said that calls for genocide are allowed on campus (which was never offered to TPUSA when they said that there were 2 genders). They have been repeatedly calling for genocide against jews, and are very favorable towards collective racial, ethnic, and religious punishment. We have seen two major assassination attempts on Donald Trump (both were popularly supported by the Left). I think 23% of Democrats said that the country would be better off id Donald Trump was dead.

From a Leftist analysis, Trotsky and Lenin have very specific arguments about what types of political terrorism was correct. They basically said that terrorism was good IF AND ONLY IF it was conducted within the direction of the party, as part of a larger objective. The political violence we saw from 2016-2021 was all informally suggested. It was about supporting generalized outbursts of violence that couldn't be directly tied to the party. This is the kind of logic that gets used to justify more authoritarian measures to "protect civility and order" by intentionally encouraging disorder among the criminal class. However, in 2024, the political violence is less in quantity, but it seems to be more openly popular and openly embraced. It appears that although the level of violence has gone down, the support for political violence in the Leftist intelligentsia and among their apparatchiks have significantly increased.

I was very worried several years ago that Trump supporters and Trump protestors could easily get machine-gunned, Apartheid South Africa style, in a large peaceful protest where the government sought to send a message to intimidate dissent. I predicted that it would cause major blowback. That never panned out because January 6th was about as close as that got, but due to the level of non-violent conduct among the Trump supporters, we didn't see cops just shooting a thousand live rounds into a crowd... despite Nancy Pelosi demanding M240's being mounted on roof-tops.

I fear that we are actually closer to that now with less violence, but far more popular support among The Party to commit such an act. Such an act of violence couldn't be any more stupid for them, but I feel like it's a real possibility at this point. There's no reason to believe a schizo, blue-anon, cop wouldn't just scream "THEY'RE GONNA JAN 6 US!" and start mag-dumping a crowd during a Trump inauguration. Even though congress made it illegal, I am seriously wondering if Kamala Harris may refuse to count the electors, or recognize them. If thousands of law enforcement descended on the inauguration after a mass police shooting, and began arresting tens of thousands of people with extreme violence, would the media do anything but openly support it? I really don't think so. I think the establishment has gotten used to the taste of blood in their mouth at this point.

Before J6, someone from The Donald came here and told everyone not to go to the inauguration because he feared violence. I remember telling him that that would be silly because all it would be is your average Trump rally. I think that warning is even more important now. I would prefer if no one attended the Trump inauguration, because I feel like the government is probably more accepting now of open blood-letting than before.

As for a Civil War, frankly we've past that point. I think we're actually less likely to have one now more than in the past 8 years because the right actually seems to be properly winning the culture war, and the regime is becoming more and more illegitimate.