Oliver CzuloJun 16
Thomas Zimmer

Creeping Civil War

In the name of defending “real” America, Trump is waging a violent campaign against the majority of the people who live here; claiming to represent the “will of the people,” the regime is at war with American society as it actually exists.

My new piece, for @ZEITONLINE (in German):

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-06/proteste-donald-trump-usa-spaltung-buergerkrieg

Proteste in Los Angeles: Steuern die USA auf einen Bürgerkrieg zu?

Die Trump-Regierung sieht in weiten Teilen der eigenen Bevölkerung den inneren Feind. Gegen den wendet sie sich: um das vermeintlich wahre Amerika zu verteidigen.

ZEIT ONLINE
Jun 15 at 6:29pmIvory for iOS
Show threadThomas ZimmerJun 15
Two things are true at the same time: The regime is encountering a lot more resistance than they know how to handle, they are vulnerable. Yet they are also dangerous, controlling the coercive powers of the state, fueled by a paranoid, conspiratorial siege mentality that pushes them to escalate.
Show threadThomas ZimmerJun 15
Trump is the leader of a movement convinced that this presidency offers the last chance to prevent the wholesale destruction of “real America” at the hands of foreign invaders and an “enemy within” consisting of a leftist, “globalist” cabal. They want the confrontation. They will rule - or ruin.
Show threadMichael VilainJun 15
@tzimmer_history @ZEITONLINE Sadly, in German and a pay site.
Show threaddevoirJun 15
@tzimmer_history @ZEITONLINE darn it’s gated