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# ‘They are preparing for war’: An expert on civil wars discusses where political extremists are taking this country
- URL: https://werd.io/they-are-preparing-for-war-an-expert-on-civil-wars/
- Published: 2022-07-08T03:38:06.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-08T03:38:06.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“That’s when I started to follow the data. And then, watching what happened to the Republican Party really was the bigger surprise — that, wow, they’re doubling down on this almost white supremacist strategy. That’s a losing strategy in a democracy. So why would they do that? Okay, it’s worked for them since the ’60s and ’70s, but you can’t turn back demographics. And then I was like, Oh my gosh. The only way this is a winning strategy is if you begin to weaken the institutions; this is the pattern we see in other countries. And, as an American citizen I’m like, These two factors are emerging here, and people don’t know.”

\[[Link](https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/)\]