by Jonathan Reisman

The unprecedented August 8th raid on former President Trump’s Florida home has loosed the whirlwind (to reference Senator Schumer’s public threats to Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett). Like Fort Sumter, it will be noted in history as the action signifying the formal start of the second American Civil War, although the roots and divisions go back many years. They just cannot be papered over anymore, even though the legacy media and our own Bangor Daily News will do their best (see the August 10 editorial).