A Republican in Indiana has declared that the Second Civil War has already begun, and I think it s a pretty good bet that it s already here. Plus, a list of signs that you re already in a civil war, and why you should be worried.
00:16:02.000Minnesota standoff with Trump administration stokes fears of civil war.
00:16:06.000Local officials have deemed the surge of immigration enforcement officers, a federal invasion, doubling down in the courts and in public remarks as federal confrontations with Minnesota residents turned violent, then deadly.
00:16:17.000The fatal shooting of 37 year old intensive care nurse, Alex pretty brought the standoff to a cliff edge and both Trump and the state seem to have changed course.
00:16:26.000But as the federal government goes toe to toe with democratic state leaders, experts warn of a pressure cooker for civil war.
00:16:32.000The problem is these crises are like street cars.
00:16:36.000There's one coming along every five minutes.
00:16:39.000And while we might be able to avoid severe violence once, twice, three times at some point, we're going to stop.
00:16:47.000Thousands of immigration enforcement officers descended on Minneapolis and St.
00:16:51.000Paul streets amid the administration, so-called operation Metro surge spurred by a sprawling welfare fraud scandal involving the local Somali community.
00:16:58.000They're going to mention pretty shooting the shooting of Renee good as well.
00:17:02.000I mean, is it Fort Sumter asks the governor?
00:17:13.000Kevin Wade, a civil war era historian and professor at the university of Texas at Dallas said he thinks a path of civil war is neither inevitable nor lacking off ramps.
00:17:22.000But in April, 1861, when Confederate insurgents fired the first shots on the war on the South Carolina sea fort, there was a much clearer sense that the Rubicon had been crossed in today.
00:17:32.000I want to fact check that because I don't know that that's true.
00:17:42.000Confederate Confederate forces fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.
00:17:44.000Uh, Edmund Ruffin, the single, the signal shot was ordered by Captain George S. James and fired by Lieutenant Henry S. Farley from Fort Johnson.
00:17:55.000Um, I just need to stress and make sure this is important to you.
00:17:58.000The Confederates then were Democrats and the Democrats are much in the exact same insurgent position they were back then as well.
00:18:04.000The Confederates were wrong to try and, uh, secede from the union.
00:18:08.000In my view, I believe that, uh, let me, let me, let me give the quick moral and philosophical view that I have.
00:18:14.000And by all means disagree, comment below and tell me why you disagree.
00:18:49.000They still had members of Congress and the Senate.
00:18:52.000They still had an opportunity to fight, but we're losing the moral battle.
00:18:57.000So despite the fact they had adequate representation, they decided to break the deal where blood and treasure had been sacrificed to admit these states into the union.
00:19:07.000And they said, we're going to leave because we lost the democratic game that we all agreed to play.
00:19:12.000We're going to go do it somewhere else.
00:19:14.000And this resulted in some others, Texas, for instance, geographically isolated, decided to join largely for that reason.
00:19:20.000And I believe it was wrong to do today.
00:19:23.000The Democrats lost fair and square and are actively resisting federal law enforcement operations.
00:19:29.000These laws have been in the books for decades.
00:19:34.000There's an election coming up in the midterms.
00:19:36.000Instead, both Democrats, Republicans take the blame for this.
00:19:39.000They are redistricting to make sure there's not going to be a legitimate voice of the American people, just factions bickering and refusing to drop it.
00:19:48.000How can a multicultural democracy and a constitutional republic coexist in the same borders?
00:19:57.000The Hill goes on to say the tug of war of state and federal power has been a feature of Trump's presidency and immigration and crime crackdowns targeted at cities and states led by Democrats.
00:20:06.000Minnesota state and local officials have sued to get immigration and customs enforcement out of the state.
00:20:11.000A judge is weighing whether to block the surge.
00:20:13.000Freya said that Minneapolis will not enforce federal immigration laws, which Trump described as playing with fire.
00:20:20.000Matthew Pinsker, a historian and author of the Substack, What Would Lincoln Do?, pointed to the exchange as an example of the deeply rooted debate over whether the federal government can direct state and local officials to enforce its laws stemming from the 10th Amendment's anti-commandeering doctrine.
00:20:34.000It goes back to the 1850s and the Fugitive Slave Act, which both Pinsker and Waite referenced as a historical parallel to the conflict in Minnesota today.
00:20:42.000The law required the return of enslaved people to their enslavers, even if found in free states.
00:20:47.000But many free states passed personal liberty laws that effectively obstructed the federal measure.
00:20:52.000The historians compared the effort to sanctuary cities.
00:20:55.000It's a serious legal debate that can't be resolved by firing shots at each other on social media.
00:21:00.000You have to let the process play out in the courts.
00:21:02.000The Democrats' effort in the long run will be to make second class citizens.
00:21:06.000You can come into this country and work, but you don't have citizenship.
00:21:13.000I'd prefer legal migrants coming into this country, filling out the paperwork properly, waving little American flags, getting jobs and the right to vote like everybody else.
00:21:21.000Democrats would prefer second class citizens getting paid a pittance cleaning your bathroom floors.
00:21:25.000The Supreme Court in December rejected Trump's bid to send troops to Chicago, saying the president must be able to execute laws with the regular force of the U.S. to justify, U.S. military, to justify calling up the National Guard.
00:21:36.000Minnesota State Rep. Aisha Gomez told The Hill in an interview that local officials and residents are fighting on every front, that the state's attorney's office is using every single lever that they have at their disposal to oppose the operation.
00:21:49.000She warned, however, against placing all odds on the courts.
00:21:53.000Despite the federal government's use of force in Minnesota, it's not a civil war, Sademan said.
00:21:58.000He explained that civil war requires a sustained campaign of violence by both the government and an opposing force.
00:22:03.000It's not a civil war unless there's two sides to it.
00:22:05.000And so the question really is, will the resistance to Trump lead to violence?
00:22:09.000I'd just like to point out the Syrian civil war had like 12 different factions.
00:22:13.000I understand that these people are academics and they're learned and such, but I just at least will argue that.
00:22:18.000The Syrian civil war was like 12 factions early on.
00:22:21.000They called it a civil war and those factions then began to coalesce.
00:22:24.000OK, we are seeing these like de facto law enforcement groups forming.
00:22:33.000How much longer until they make uniforms?
00:22:35.000And they say, we need to be able to easily identify our comrades.
00:22:40.000So they start wearing armbands or brown shirts.
00:22:47.000A 2024 simulation by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania determined that a violent confrontation between state and federal military forces in major U.S. city could start a civil war.
00:22:56.000Claire Finkelstein, a law professor and founder of the Center, wrote in The Guardian that the state of Plain Minnesota closely mirrors the exercise, which she said was seen as feasible by senior ex-military and government officials who participated in it, especially after the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity for official conduct.
00:23:12.000She noted that a crisis precipitating civil war might move faster than the courts can keep up, leaving state officials without effective judicial relief and service members defying unlawful orders as a last line of defense.
00:23:27.000Former Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, who last year repeatedly called for a national divorce between red and blue states, warned Republicans and Democrats to take off their political blinders to see the stirring conflict.
00:23:36.000You are all being incited into a civil war, she said this week.
00:23:40.000Yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face.
00:23:46.000Ex-Minnesota Governor Justin Ventura, a political independent, suggested the state should secede and join Canada.
00:23:52.000While Republican lawmakers accused Waltz of fomenting civil war by authorizing his state's National Guard to be staged and ready after good was killed.
00:24:00.000Pinsker said a lesson from the 1850s, more like today than the 1860s, the beginning of the Civil War period, is that words matter.
00:24:07.000And both rhetoric and sporadic violence can escalate.
00:24:10.000Since Freddie's death, both Minnesota officials and the Trump administration have taken steps to tamp down the tensions.
00:24:14.000It doesn't matter. None of that matters.
00:24:17.000Trump, of course, as an older guy and Waltz is an older guy are going to be like, we better slow things down.
00:24:50.000There's no coming to an agreement on it.
00:24:52.000I'm sorry, but this country is hyper polarized between those who would argue abortion can happen at nine months like they do in Colorado or no abortions at all in Oklahoma.
00:25:03.000As more and more people leave their states, conservatives from California, conservatives from New York, and they moved to other states, California and New York become deeper blue.
00:25:13.000They're going to enforce a whole bunch of crazy laws.
00:25:16.000Texas and Florida become more red and they're going to go the other direction.
00:25:23.000The hypothetical I've entertained, which I don't know is necessarily apt to this current circumstance, but Owen in Oklahoma is seven months pregnant with a baby.
00:25:32.000For whatever reason, she decides to leave her significant other.
00:25:38.000He argues she just wants she had a change of heart.
00:25:42.000In the early hours of the morning, this pregnant woman flees without saying anything to her significant other, gets in a vehicle with a friend,
00:25:49.000and they start rushing as fast as they can to Colorado so she can get an abortion.
00:25:53.000She thinks she says, if I have this child, I will be trapped this abusive man forever.
00:27:11.000They made the argument that it's about protecting families or whatever, but they opened the border to illegal immigrants and then argue that someone's got to do the job they won't do.
00:27:18.000Well, once again, the government's trying to enforce the law and Democrats want their cheap labor.
00:27:52.000You really want to feel the federal and state law enforcement officers are working together, but they're not.
00:27:57.000Let me, let me wrap by just saying this as we, uh, we look at the redistricting stuff and how the redistricting is the beginnings of the war between states.
00:28:46.000Her tires accelerate to the left towards the officer, which means he likely heard the engine accelerate before her tires spin on the ice and then turn right.
00:28:55.000All he can see is the hood of the car driving towards him.
00:28:58.000And he shoots three times in about a second.
00:29:00.000It's a tragic circumstance, but the reality is these circumstances were both created by the individuals in question.
00:29:06.000Renee good did not need to try to accelerate to flee with an agent in front of her.
00:29:09.000No less blame the agent for being in front of her, but she's the one who pressed the gas.
00:29:13.000Prattie didn't need to try and fight cops and resist arrest.
00:29:16.000He had done it before and he did it there.
00:29:18.000Neither of these people should have died, but this is what happens when you choose to fight the way you do.