MAGA’s Ugly New “Civil War” Fantasy Should be Taken Seriously

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Far-right personalities are fantasizing about “civil war” again, amid a standoff between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the feds over border enforcement. That may seem silly, but unbridgeable differences over immigration truly are driving many big stories of the moment, from that Texas battle to Senate negotiations over a border bill to the House GOP impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. If you want to understand what’s really going on with all these complex issues, few voices bring more clarity than Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council. We chatted with him about the deeper conflicts and tensions animating this crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:05.1	Welcome, everybody. You may have heard that Marjorie Taylor Green and other right-wing
2:09.2	personalities are fantasizing about civil war again. They're angry about a standoff in Texas
2:15.0	between Republican Governor Greg Abbott and the feds over
2:18.2	immigration enforcement. This civil war talk gets at something important. Three of the biggest
2:24.6	stories in U.S. politics right now are converging on a single theme. On immigration,
2:29.9	Trump has pulled the GOP so far to the right that the differences between the two parties are
2:34.9	becoming unbridgeable. The three stories are that Texas standoff, an effort by House Republicans
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