America's low-intensity civil war

And he's not the only one: "Film Director and Writer Paul Schrader Calls for Violence to Protest Against Trump"

I have spent the last five days meditating on Trump's election. Upon consideration, I believe this is a call to violence. I felt the call to violence in the 60's and I feel it now again. This attack on liberty and tolerance will not be solved by appeasement. Obama tried that for eight years. We should finance those who support violence resistance. We should be willing to take arms. Like Old John Brown, I am willing to battle with my children. Alt right nut jobs swagger violence. It's time to actualize that violence, Like by Civil War Michigan predecessors I choose to stand with the black, the brown and the oppressed.

Schrader is a washed-up Hollywood figure  who quickly received this Twittered response.

All this aside, though, Schrader is not at all the only one calling for violence against Donald Trump, his forthcoming administration and those who voted for him.

Then there's this from Instapundit: Who Pays for the Anti-Trump Demonstrations/Riots?

The sacking of Portland is, so far, only the worst of what is happening across the country. There’s plenty more, accompanied by chants of “Love Trumps Hate” alternating with”Kill the Police.” Not very gentle stuff for supposed peacemakers. But perhaps they were only imitating their leader. Further, supposed neo-Nazi graffiti linked with Trump’s name are being reported by the MSM, which, not surprisingly, makes no serious attempt to determine if they are real or the work of provocateurs. (In most cases, I’m betting on the latter.)
The operative question, however, is just who pays for this mayhem and what do they want. Asra Nomani posted a list of 100 supporters of the Trump Protests on Twitter. You will recognize many names. 33 out of the 100 received money from one man, referred to at the link in proper Twitter syntax as @georgesoros.

I have already posted about the Left's fantasy that the electoral college will magically decide to vote for Hillary. But now they've gone beyond and are actually threatening electors:

According to reports out of Idaho and elsewhere, Clinton supporters have obtained Electoral College voters’ personal information and are harassing them with calls, Facebook messages, emails and even home visits, encouraging them to become “faithless electors,” and change their Trump votes to Clinton votes.

And they aren’t being kind about it: “A lot of ’em use bad, rough language,” said Layne Bangerter, one of Idaho’s electors. “Nothing I feel intimidated over. But we’re watching it very closely. They’ve got our home phone numbers, our cell numbers, our emails, our Facebook. We’re just getting an orchestrated barrage from the left.”

“They attack my religion, they attack my politics, they tell me that I must be a terrible father, I must be a terrible American, they use foul language — every swear word,” Bangerter said.

Which led Sarah Hoyt (whence the link) to respond,  “Do you want a civil war?  That’s how you get a civil war.”

More here.

Technically speaking, a civil war is one fought over who shall control the single, central government of a nation. The 1930s' Spanish civil war is a perfect example because both armies were fighting over who would govern the entire nation. What we call the American Civil War was not actually that; it was a war of secession. The CSA was not fighting to control the American central government but to separate from it altogether.

What these harassments and the post-election riots are about is control of the central government - and the insurrectionists are using violence to achieve their goals. Don't think that just because the electoral college will vote and Trump's inauguration will take place that all this will suddenly fade away like magic.

Everywhere in history, any time the Left has lost, it has turned more violent. Violence always underlies their means. As I have posted, the party that claims it is all about peace and love never shrinks from beating the crap out of its opponents or even murdering them. That won't change come January 20.

Update: Scott Alexander writes, in a lengthy essay I think everyone, right or left, should read:

Among the stories I was able to confirm on moderately trustworthy news sites that had investigated them somewhat (a higher standard than the SLPC holds their reports to) are ones about how Hillary supporters have beaten up people for wearing Trump hats, screamed encouragement as a mob beat up a man who they thought voted Trump, knocked over elderly people, beaten up a high school girl for supporting Trump on Instagram, defaced monuments with graffiti saying “DIE WHITES DIE”, advocated raping Melania Trump, kicked a black homeless woman who was holding a Trump sign, attacked a pregnant woman stuck in her car, with a baseball bat, screamed at children who vote Trump in a mock school election, etc, etc, etc.

Update: Austin Bay: "Identifying electors and then attempting to intimidate them into switching their votes is an ipso facto effort to overturn a national election." That is, an attempt to control the national government, the very definition of a civil war. Read the whole thing.