I'm not surprised to hear that TPN has become more...TPN, I guess you'd say. It was exhibiting the classic red flags: a bunch of disgruntled people, mostly guys, mostly older, hanging out together and playing "can you top this?" (this grievance); and too much focus on one individual. Judson seemed to be enjoying his cult of personality, not to mention the TV appearances. Classic primate behavior of a wannabe alpha gathering his betas and stoking them for the fight to come.

I glanced at the yahoos below hooting in derision at the very idea that, if there's a civil war, it'll be sparked by the right. But I can only report what I see, not just at TPN, but at other firebreathing groups like the "Oath Keepers". It's walking, quacking, and looking like a duck to me.

But you know, whether I see a pending civil war wasn't the main thrust of my post, except insofar as splitting up the US would relieve the pressure before it got so bad that there's war. I've become pretty turned off and tuned out of politics these days, but I could get energized about fissioning the country.