LET'S GIVE TRUMP'S CIVIL WAR THE CORRECT NAME (updated)

It's clear now that President Trump -- or Stephen Miller, his tireless, bloodthirsty power behind the throne -- wanted to change the name of the Department of Defense just before the administration's military invasion of Chicago, in order to send a very specific message. Yesterday, on Truth Social, Trump sent that message:

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) September 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM

This is America's second civil war, fought on behalf of the Republican Party, which doesn't believe members of the opposition party are genuine Americans, and has felt this way for decades. (James Watt, Ronald Reagan's interior secretary, in 1981: "I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It's liberals and Americans.") Every city targeted will be a Democratic-run city. Immigrants are the alleged enemy, but the real enemy is Democratic rule. Recall what Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, said in a July speech:

"When we have cities like Austin, or Nashville, or other capital cities whose local government is not representative of the will of the people, de-charter them and establish them as state municipal districts in the name of common sense,” he urged.

By "the people" he meant the Republican people, who, as he sees it, are the only genuine Americans. Roberts specifically identified blue cities in red states, but every city run by Democrats is a blue city in what is now a red country, and the president of the United States believes it's his right to, in effect, "de-charter" these cities.

The naming of wars can be politicized. Some American Southerners have rejected the name "Civil War" for the conflict fought on U.S. soil starting in 1861, preferring to call it "the War Between the States" or "the War of Northern Aggression." Russians call World War II "the Great Patriotic War."

If we call Trump's urban invasions a war, we should give the war its correct name: the War on Democrats. That's literally what it is. Democrats are the real enemy -- every Fox viewer knows that -- and victory, for the aggressors, would be the eradiction of Democratic power everywhere in the country.

So let's use the name War on Democrats whenever we can. History will recognize its accuracy.

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UPDATE, TUESDAY, 9/9: As I was saying...

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

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— Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) September 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM