IN THE POST BELOW I suggested that the Trump conviction was the opening shot in America's second Civil War.

Even ESPN's Stephen Smith, no fan of Trump, thinks "it all points to civil war in this country."

Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club has a more nuanced view, thinking "it will resolve whether America will survive as a distinct cultural entity or ... become a non-special part of a future Global World, governed ...from Washington D.C."