We are in Stage 9 of the 10 stages to civil war…
The oppositional structure for Civil War 2.0 developed out of thin air on a single evening in January. There’s more to the story down below, but the lines developed amazingly quickly. I thought the real issue would be the Second Amendment, but illegal immigration managed to do what no other issue that the TradRight had could do: make everyone notice. The unending flood of illegal aliens (an absolute record this month, ever, as shown in the Civil War Index graph below) has been the catalyst.
The border simply does not exist in 2024. Anyone can walk across at any time, any place, and be rewarded with cash, prizes, airfare to anyplace in the nation, and free room and board.
First: Texas wasn’t ordered by the Supreme Court to do anything. The Supreme Court’s decision was removing an injunction against the more or less worthless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) being able to remove razor wire that Texas put up, so the ruling doesn’t require Texas to do anything.
Second: If ICE is as bad at customs as they are at immigration, I’d expect that you could export nuclear bombs to Bulgaria.
Aside from that, the amazing thing was about how quickly a coalition of the Several States backed Texas.