I don’t even know what to say.
Is America undergoing an existential crisis? I feel like I am with respect to what it means to be an American.
I don’t know that what we’re seeing today is Civil Disobedience.
Yup, this is 1850, we might get pulled back from the brink, but only temporarily.
If the only shots fired were by law enforcement, then I would say it is still civil disobedience. Whether you agree with their politics or not.