Post by addisona on Feb 11, 2022 12:00:38 GMT
Blame Stephen Marche. At least partially. The Canadian author’s just-released book: The Next Civil War: Dispatches From the American Future, along with political scientist Barbara F. Walter’s How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them provides plenty of ammo for the corporate media’s collective meltdown.
In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the January 6 riots, an incredible number of major media outlets cited these books while beating the drums of war. “Are We Really Facing a second civil war?” read a New York Times headline. “Imagine Another Civil War, But This Time in Every State,” warned NPR. For Politico, the second civil war had already begun; the only question left to ask was, “Why?” The cover for last month’s issue of the Atlantic is all funereal black except for the handwritten words “January 6 Was Practice” scrawled on it as if delivering America’s eulogy.
Marche actually began hinting at the possibility of a modern Civil War while covering the 2016 election for Esquire. “Is it the beginning of a Civil War? Or is it just talk?” he asked in response to top Republicans’ increasingly violent rhetoric.
A half decade later, Marche decided to answer his own question with a resounding yes. Now he’s like a bizarro Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting America from another country to warn us that we’re all doomed.
www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/new-civil-war-apocalyptic-rhetoric-news-media-far-right-liberals
In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the January 6 riots, an incredible number of major media outlets cited these books while beating the drums of war. “Are We Really Facing a second civil war?” read a New York Times headline. “Imagine Another Civil War, But This Time in Every State,” warned NPR. For Politico, the second civil war had already begun; the only question left to ask was, “Why?” The cover for last month’s issue of the Atlantic is all funereal black except for the handwritten words “January 6 Was Practice” scrawled on it as if delivering America’s eulogy.
Marche actually began hinting at the possibility of a modern Civil War while covering the 2016 election for Esquire. “Is it the beginning of a Civil War? Or is it just talk?” he asked in response to top Republicans’ increasingly violent rhetoric.
A half decade later, Marche decided to answer his own question with a resounding yes. Now he’s like a bizarro Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting America from another country to warn us that we’re all doomed.
www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/new-civil-war-apocalyptic-rhetoric-news-media-far-right-liberals