{"id":1217310,"date":"2022-01-14T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217310"},"modified":"2022-01-14T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T01:20:35","slug":"nyt-warns-of-right-wing-threat-to-democracy-calls-to-war-game-insurgency-secession-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-warns-of-right-wing-threat-to-democracy-calls-to-war-game-insurgency-secession-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Warns of \u2018Right-Wing Threat\u2019 to Democracy, Calls to \u2018War-Game\u2019 Insurgency, Secession, Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-warns-of-right-wing-threat-to-democracy-calls-to-war-game-insurgency-secession-civil-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217310&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Civil-War-Engraving-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The U.S. may be on the verge of collapse due to right-wing threats on democracy, according to a recent <\/span><i><span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><span> piece that called to intensify \u201cwar games\u201d for scenarios concerning the 2024 presidential elections such as \u201cinsurrection, secession, insurgency and civil war\u201d in order to avert \u201cpolitical decay\u201d of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Thursday <\/span><i><span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/13\/opinion\/january-6-civil-war.html\"><span>essay<\/span><\/a><span>, titled \u201cWe Need to Think the Unthinkable About Our Country,\u201d begins by deeming the U.S. perhaps \u201ceven more alarmingly fractious and divided\u201d one year after the January 6 Capitol riot.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cRegrettably, the right has sustained its support for [former President] Donald Trump and continued its assault on American democratic norms,\u201d it continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;War games, tabletop exercises, operations research \u2026 on the prospect of American political conflagration \u2014 including insurrection, secession, insurgency and civil war \u2014 should be proceeding at a higher tempo,&#8221; write Jonathan Stevenson and Steven Simon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8eHJ6KpaBh\">https:\/\/t.co\/8eHJ6KpaBh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1481855430590664706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The essay was penned by Jonathan Stevenson, a former National Security Council staffer in the Obama administration, and Steven Simon, a former staffer in the State Department and on the National Security Council in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Speculating that the next presidential election \u201cwill almost inevitably be viciously (perhaps violently) contested,\u201d the authors warn of a \u201cpolitically existential\u201d threat to the country due to right-wing preparations for a potential 2024 \u201cpower grab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYet many Americans seem to be whistling past the graveyard of American democracy,\u201d the essay cautions, as it laments the little effort dedicated to \u201cthink tanks, professional military institutions and universities to build and contemplate the dire scenarios that have become increasingly plausible.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Describing the worst-case scenario as one where the country falls apart \u201cat the seams,\u201d the authors then highlight how, in the past, \u201cworst-case thinking<\/span> <span>kept the prospect of nuclear holocaust real and the need to avoid it urgent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though the essay admits since the Capitol riot, many have \u201crecognized, ridiculed and lamented the state of our democracy,\u201d it also claimed that, in terms of the coming presidential election, \u201csystematic and dispassionate analysis of such possibilities has not widely emerged.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The authors also urged reviving the 2020 bipartisan Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which they claimed far-right groups \u201cmobilized to dismiss\u201d after deeming the group\u2019s activities \u201cleftist psychological warfare\u201d and \u201ca blueprint for a left-wing coup.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThat should not stop a reprise of the project\u2019s efforts with respect to the 2024 election,\u201d they write.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>TIP, which comprised over 100 leading experts and officials, mostly Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, \u201cwar-gamed\u201d potential outcomes of the 2020 elections, releasing a 22-page <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/7013152-Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.html\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> in 2020, titled \u201cPreventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The report concluded that anything less than a Biden-Harris landslide would spark catastrophe, including \u201cviolence in the streets\u201d and a \u201cconstitutional impasse.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the report, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/10\/transition-integrity-project-founder-suggested-military-coup-against-trump-days-after-inauguration\/\"><span>even<\/span><\/a><span> a \u201cclear Trump win\u201d was deemed possible only through \u201cforeign interference and voter suppression\u201d and would not be regarded as legitimate.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The authors then warn of how some on the right pose a threat to the country\u2019s political stability.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cA right-wing minority \u2014 including many elected politicians \u2014 is now practicing a form of brinkmanship by threatening to unilaterally destroy American democracy, daring what they hope is a timid and somnolent majority to resist them,\u201d it reads.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calling to \u201cprepare our defenses for the worst,\u201d the essay describes how \u201cpolicy focus is now on pre-empting a right-wing steal in the next national election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWar games, tabletop exercises, operations research, campaign analyses, conferences and seminars on the prospect of American political conflagration \u2014 including insurrection, secession, insurgency and civil war \u2014 should be proceeding at a higher tempo and intensity,\u201d it states.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The authors conclude by urging to \u201cprobe just how bad things could get precisely to ensure that they never do, and that America\u2019s abject political decay is averted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The essay comes as the left routinely describe conservatives as a domestic threat to democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. may be on the verge of collapse due to right-wing threats on democracy, according to a recent New York Times piece that called to intensify \u201cwar games\u201d for 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