Heidi Li Feldman, legal scholar and progressive activist, a week ago, in the initial wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE:

Historians will, I predict, deem the current situation in the United States the American Civil War II.

This is a civil war instigated by the federal government when it began sending unnecessary and militarized forces into American cities. I date the start to the weekend of October 4, 2025 when Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth secretly ordered U.S. military troops to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to aid and abet violence by federal agents against peaceful civilian populations. The militaristic federal invasion and occupation of Minneapolis is a continuation of this war.

A week later, as the world again witnessed agents of the American government brutally shoot and kill a second American citizen, Alex Pretti, in broad daylight—again captured on camera and again excused by the Trump regime with outrageous and transparent lies—a second civil war feels even more inevitable.

Only the Trump regime can pull this country back from the brink. They seemingly have no intention of doing so.