Trump is a serious threat to the union of American states – POLITICO https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-united-states-election-2024-serious-threat/
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A disturbingly real perspective from Europe. By a Dutch Member of the European Parliament, in the European version of Politico. Trump being a horror is nothing that about half of us here in the States don't know, but the historical comparisons and the risk of literal dis-Union aren't often talked about here.
"[I]t’s a relief that arch conspirator Trump is now being brought to court by Special Council Jack Smith — but it’s hardly misplaced to still harbor fears.
Trump seems a dark throwback to the 19th century, when the American civil war erupted because men like John C. Calhoun, Nathan B. Forrest and Jefferson Davis wanted their truth to be victorious. The result: a bloody secession. Trump now similarly wants his truth to be victorious. And while that hopefully doesn’t mean an actual civil war, the U.S. is in the middle of a disorienting cultural civil war."
I'd say that's a pretty odd take on the cause of the US Civil War, not to mention the political history between declarations from state houses and the first shots fired.
