http://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/us/politics/trump-border-wall.html?comments#permid=30560876

We are in a war between the States. There is nothing civil about it. It will get bloody. It always does.

In the beginning, it was a culture war. The children of immigrants have been the first casualties. They will not be the last. The troops are moving into position. Our leaders stand around and chew their fingernails. This is how it works. This is how it happens. This is power unleashed.

Americans are worried about their jobs and they should be. But you don’t have jobs if there is no country to have them in. America is not unraveling. It is unraveled. The last time this happened, every family felt the bite. People had to choose what side they were on. Immigrants are the slaves. In every situation like this on the planet, it will be decided by the military. They, too, will have to choose. To not decide is to choose. But the status quo will not stand, and it doesn’t matter if American government shuts down because the American government has been shut down for the past two years.

Our insistence that it is a government that functions is sadly mistaken, sadly false, and sadly beneath contempt. We do not have shared values. We do not have cherished traditions. Our principles are not governed by the rule of law. What we have is a confederacy of conspirators who have allied themselves with a foreign country. Americans will insist that it’s not too late to take it back. If it’s not too late to take it back, then how did we get here in the first place. Only one man matters.