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Stranger than Fiction: Could An AOC Presidency Spark the Next Civil War?

By Gib Kerr

Warning: The following article contains disturbing content, including the potential presidency of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the next American Civil War.

At the peak of America’s temporary insanity, amid COVID-19 and the George Floyd hysteria, I wrote a novel that imagined a triumphant AOC in the White House, which most people found laughably implausible. My creative muse entertained dramatic scenarios. The threat of open borders, and the Texas governor sending state troops to the Rio Grande. A raid on President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. An aging President Biden dropping out of the 2024 election to be replaced by a left-wing woman of color. State-controlled censorship and a Ministry of Truth. Student loan forgiveness. Weaponization of the judicial system to target political enemies.

I predicted every one of those things in my novel States of Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Ocasio-Cortez Administration. Although some of the details were slightly off, my book proved sadly prophetic, albeit under Joe Biden instead of AOC.

The notion of a violent clash between opposing American states may seem farfetched, but we have seen it before. As Mark Twain said, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

Out-of-touch coastal elitists underestimate the fire of liberty that still burns in the hearts of American patriots. Unlike any other country on the planet, America has a deeply ingrained spirit of freedom and independence. If constitutional rights get trampled, at some point governors, law enforcement, and military personnel will remember their oaths to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. ......