Warning: The following article contains disturbing content, including the potential presidency of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the next American Civil War.

At the peak of America’s temporary insanity, amid COVID-19 and the George Floyd hysteria, I wrote a novel that imagined a triumphant AOC in the White House, which most people found laughably implausible.

My creative muse entertained dramatic scenarios. The threat of open borders, and the Texas governor sending state troops to the Rio Grande. A raid on President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. An aging President Biden dropping out of the 2024 election to be replaced by a left-wing woman of color. State-controlled censorship and a Ministry of Truth. Student loan forgiveness. Weaponization of the judicial system to target political enemies.

I predicted every one of those things in my novel States of Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Ocasio-Cortez Administration. Although some of the details were slightly off, my book proved sadly prophetic, albeit under Joe Biden instead of AOC.

The notion of a violent clash between opposing American states may seem farfetched, but we have seen it before. As Mark Twain said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

Out-of-touch coastal elitists underestimate the fire of liberty that still burns in the hearts of American patriots. Unlike any other country on the planet, America has a deeply ingrained spirit of freedom and independence. If constitutional rights get trampled, at some point governors, law enforcement, and military personnel will remember their oaths to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

In many ways, America has been preparing for the coming crisis. Perhaps our collective subconscious understands what few of us mindfully recognize: that today’s opposing political factions are becoming hopelessly irreconcilable.

In recent years, America has self-segregated along ideological lines. Countless friendships, marriages, and family relationships have ended over these differences. Millions of people have voted with their feet by emigrating from blue states to red states. People are choosing sides.

I’m not saying this is a good thing, but I recognize a pattern—like the growing gulf that separated North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War—where mounting tensions and communication breakdown lead each side to demonize the other, ultimately resulting in violence.

The harmless-looking, mask-wearing Prius driver may amuse you with her “COEXIST” bumper sticker, but don’t be fooled. More and more Democrats openly condone violence—even assassination—in the furtherance of their cause. They celebrate Luigi Mangione as a hero, cheer on Hamas, and yearn for the safe return of an MS-13 wife beater. They have also become strangely enamored with the war in Ukraine that has killed hundreds of thousands of young men.

Despite their bumper stickers and sanctimonious “Hate has no home here” yard signs, there can be no peaceful coexistence between our two diametrically opposed factions. The left will not relent until MAGA is destroyed by any means possible.

Trump and his supporters breathed a huge sigh of relief last year when he and our country literally and figuratively dodged a bullet. Yet we remain a sharply divided nation. And now the leftist resistance is fighting back.

Bernie Sanders and AOC are filling arenas and raising millions from Trump-deranged Democrats who are doubling down on the crazy policies that nearly destroyed America under four years of Biden. Bernie is passing his socialist mantle to AOC, who has emerged as a leading contender for the presidency in 2028.

Now the thought of an AOC White House is not so funny.

The same Marxist-animated ideology of the Biden White House puppet-masters would be unleashed with a vengeance in an Ocasio-Cortez administration. And it very well may produce the dreaded outcome detailed in my book: the next American civil war.

Republican control of the executive and legislative branches is an extremely fragile thing. The fate of our fifty-fifty nation hinges upon a few thousand votes in fickle swing states. American memories are woefully short, and by 2028 the failures of the left’s policies will be largely forgotten in many corners.

With the departure of a multitude of MAGA voters from blue states like California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts, those constituencies are hardening in their resistance to Trump’s America First agenda. They will not go quietly into the night.

They hate Trump more than they love America. They demonstrate that hatred by fighting Trump’s every move, even to the shocking point of abusing the judiciary to return foreign criminal gang members to America’s streets.

They cheered on the destructive policies of a cognitively impaired Joe Biden—record-level inflation, unsustainable debt, widespread foreign disasters, a flood of illegal immigration, and failed energy policies—despite irrefutable damage to the country.

They reveal their disdain for the Constitution by calling for government censorship of speech they don’t like, by engaging in lawfare to eliminate political opponents, and by centralizing power in an unlimited administrative state. While they enjoy their own armed security, they seek to deny private citizens their Second Amendment rights.

How does this all end? AOC and her leftist followers understand Chairman Mao’s edict that power flows from the barrel of a gun. Let’s hope that the guns remain in the hands of those who support and defend the Constitution.

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