Sorry Trumpers, there won’t be a US civil war for 2024

The tough Proud Boys convictions will make sure that Trump’s followers will stick to flying MAGA flags and no more. She told Bolling a few days earlier in the same contrived setting that Donald Trump’s arraignment in Georgia – on a slew of felony charges in connection with a mob-type scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state – was going to provoke a “civil war”. It was Palin’s explicit suggestion – framed, conveniently, as a consequence-free “question” – that a “civil war” was in the offing that caused, in her self-absorbed gambit, an agreeable stir. Palin is not the first, nor will she be the last, cable news swamp-addicted grifter to urge millions of malleable, cable news swamp addicts to “rise up” and “take America back” in what would amount to the charge of the MAGA not-so-bright brigade from the familiar comfort of a New York television studio or, in the former vice-presidential nominee’s case, her Stars and Stripes-draped basement. Sure, Trump’s maniacal followers are content to fly MAGA flags on their porches and from the back of their blaring pick-up trucks, but I doubt they’re prepared, these days, to heed another self-aggrandising charlatan’s call to “civil war” and to risk an extended stay at the crowbar hotel.