🧩 BND Motif Index · M1059
Second civil war
The country is said to be in, or sliding toward, a second civil war: a cold war between two nations inside one already under way, each side's arrests, prosecutions and violence answered harder by the other until it comes to shooting. Jesse Kelly's 'this is how you end up with a civil war... they always escalate'; 'we're in a war', wake up to it.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Political violence🗂️ Things fall apart
- 2claims filed under it
- 2right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 2
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “The escalation of political violence and arrests will lead to a civil war.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-24 “America is currently in a state of war.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room
M1059 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works