It can happen here: that’s the underlying message from author Jeff Sharlet’s latest book: “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War”. In it, Sharlet talks about his travels across the country investigating the evolution of Trump’s fascistic policies, how the death of the January 5th insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt turned her into a martyr for the MAGA crowd, tapping into the feelings of the coming Civil war from people from California to Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

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