Post-election violence inevitable
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What will happen if Trump loses? The threat of civil war examined
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The slide towards a sustained national insurgency would begin with an election victory by a razor-thin margin, disputed by political leaders in an environment where fake narratives spread rapidly.
From there, events would spiral into a breakdown of order on a scale not witnessed since the American Civil War of the 1860s.
Experts disagree only on how catastrophic the escalation will be.
A new civil war wouldn't look anything like America ’s first one in the 1860s .
It would be much more like the Troubles in Northern Ireland — an insurgency’ Most experts think a counterinsurgency-style civil war remains unlikely.
Tensions exacerbated by a series of violent events in the run-up to polling day.
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