Putin wants this nation to disintegrate and has been working hard on realizing his goal. Thanks to the election of Trump, he may achieve this desire.

We survived the first Civil War — thanks to the primitive technology and our distance from Europe. It’s not clear that would be possible if we truly had a Civil War Part II. On the other hand, it is unlikely that any states would actually take up arms against the federal government, as opposed to individual actions by reactionaries like Bundy.