Michael Vlahos: "We Were Made For Civil War"

All the civil war chatter makes me crazy.

But I'll admit, this is an interesting read. 

Also but: I never know what to do with this sort of argument / account. I can't really evaluate the multitude of sweeping historical claims, arguments, explanations and judgments.

But there are a lot of moving parts in there, and I doubt they're all right. 

I will say: he has a weak, nonstandard conception of civil war.

So when he says that we're on a trajectory toward civil war, he doesn't mean civil war civil war. 

Bad sign that people are talking like this at all, obviously.