Dear America, civil war is not a joke – or a picnic

US Civil War reenactor L and actual civil war in Bosnia R REUTERS Kevin Lamarque; REUTERS Peter Andrews

Critics have reacted to President Donald Trump’s Twitter warning about his impeachment causing a civil war with both shrieks of outrage and jokes. Notably absent: any self-awareness of such a war would be like or how to avoid it.

“If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I’m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal,” Texas televangelist Robert Jeffress said Sunday night on Fox News. Trump quoted him in a tweet the next morning, and Twitter lost its collective mind.

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