Let’s knock off the blithe talk of a coming civil war

SACRAMENTO – “We are in a civil war,” former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, a prominent conservative, said on a popular podcast last year. “So the suggestion that there’s ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future is over. … It’s going to be total war.”
The quotation, from a Washington Post article that calmly discussed renewed chatter about a previously taboo subject, sent chills up my spine even though the words