With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war

‘The rightwing has been imagining a civil war, publicly, since at least the Obama administration.’ Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The cracks in the foundations of the United States are widening, rapidly and on several fronts. The overturning of Roe v Wade has provoked a legitimacy crisis no matter what your politics.

For the right, the leaking of the draft memo last month revealed the breakdown of bipartisanship and common purpose within the institution. For the left, it demonstrated the will of dubiously selected Republican justices to overturn established rights that have somewhere near 70% to 80% political support.