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Uncle Joe

(65,364 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:31 PM Monday

"Slow Civil War" Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing Normalization of Violence at Home & Abroad



Writer Jeff Sharlet responds to the shooting event at White House correspondents’ dinner this weekend. We discuss the motivations of Cole Allen, the man accused of breaching security in an attempt to assassinate members of the Trump administration, as well as gun access in the United States and the growing violence across the political spectrum of what Sharlet calls a “slow civil war.”
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"Slow Civil War" Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing Normalization of Violence at Home & Abroad (Original Post) Uncle Joe Monday OP
We are in a civil war and have been for some time now. Irish_Dem Monday #1

Irish_Dem

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1. We are in a civil war and have been for some time now.
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:32 PM
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There is a great deal of death and violence, escalating now.
Trump is trying to kill as many people as possible with his polices.

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