The Great American Crisis (Untitled)

The Great American Crisis, or known in the United States as most commonly the Second Civil War and or just the Crisis was multiple conflicts between liberal activists, and far to alt right activists that lasted over the course of 1 year and 6 months. The events have no official end date, but the major conflicts between groups is commonly known to have ended January 21st, 2021.

The groups in almost coalition type form, began violent conflicts on June 28th, 2019 when incumbent United States President Donald Trump was impeached and removed from office for obstruction of justice. At the time, there had been many demonstrations from liberal groups to celebrate Trump's removal, but this to the alt-right groups was a call to rise up against the "elite". The first major event would be on June 30th, where an alt-right activist fired into the opposing crowd. This would set off other conflicts and massacres where far-right leaning activists would kill liberal protesters, in which the liberal protesters would retaliate.

Most events would take place in major urbanized cities, where there would be a liberal protest and alt-right leaning activists would meet at multiple points and fire into the crowds. At some points, there would be liberal activists that would also retaliate by firearm but most would be by bricks, rocks, fire, and other destructive ways. By 2021, 20 states were in a state of emergency with the National Guard deployed.

The government and police tried in multiple attempts to separate the groups, including closing down major city streets, but would only lead to conflicts in suburban and rarely rural areas. President Mike Pence would try and quell the protests but nobody listened to the president nobody elected.

The events that would take place would be mostly between the more radical groups of the sides. Antifa and Refuse Fascism would become the most radical and prepared for violence group, while the neo-Nazi and KKK groups would become the most radical for the right leaning. Polls among Americans would say that 85% of the average American disproved of the fights, but they would continue nevertheless.

There would be also an international outcry for the violence to end. This would be also used for political gains on the international stage, mostly used by then British Prime Minister Theresa May during the Northern Irish secession crisis of 2020, as a way to show what division looks like and that it could happen "even in America". Russian President Vladimir Putin would also use this crisis to spearhead any political opposition, saying that something similar would happen if the United Russia party didn't keep their majority in the 2021 legislative election.

2016 Presidential election

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Since 1994, the political distribution in America where people had mixed views had declined extremely. By 2016 about 1/3rd of Americans had mixed political views, while extreme right and left views were on the rise. During the 2014 mid-terms, this division was shown when the Republicans gained 9 seats in the Senate elections and gained even a wider majority in the House elections.

The political division had grown greatly mostly during the presidency of President Barack Obama, over ObamaCare and 2nd Amendment Rights. His term had encouraged the right to speak out, especially with the rise and later fall of the Tea Party movement. Soon after the mid-terms, many speculated who would run for the 2016 election cycle. Obama's first Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was named as the successor for the Democrats, while many were unsure who would win the Republican nomination.

Early on, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was the front runner for the party, and was expected to take the nomination handily. Yet, on June 16th, 2015 New York businessman Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the nomination. Trump wasn't taken seriously, but was still soon able to surge in poll match ups against Bush. He was able to pass Bush, and energize the Republican Party. Trump was able to invigorate the unsatisfied stay at home conservatives, along with right-wing nationalists including some support from the KKK and the alt-right. Trump nationalist base increased when he failed to push away the alt-right's support. Both Trump and Clinton would go on to win the nominations of their respective parties.

During the general, Trump received much negative news-stories in which he spun that the news was out to get him and that they were "fake news". Trump telling his supporters to not follow the news only grew his support and made them more loyal. Most of the nationalists were drawn to Trump for his support of a ban on arrivals from Muslim majority countries, wanting to build a border wall with Mexico, and deport all illegal immigrants. The populist base for Trump grew more invigorated and loyal after Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton called half of all of Trump supporters could fit in a "basket of deplorables". Trump supporters in turn, made this a positive term to describe themselves.

Trump would go onto win the 2016 presidential election, further energizing his alt-right and populist base. Soon after he won, hate crimes rose 27%, further proving that point.

Charlottesville

 * Main Articles: Unite the Right Rally, Charlottesville car attack

By mid-2015, there had been many calls to tear down and remove pro-Confederate statues across the United States. This in turn, received much defense from right-wing supporters led by Jason Kessler and Richard Spencer. They would organize a protest in defense of the statues in Charlottseville, Virginia. The protest would be called the "Unite the Right" rally. Soon, pro-leftist organizations would soon organize a counter-protest against them.

The protests would take place from August 11th to August 12th of 2017. From the very beginning there were violent clashes between the rightist supporters and the leftist group Antifa. Videos would come out from the city of white Confederate supporters beating both white and African American pro-left supporters, which would be spread across the world. The Charlottseville Police Department would stretch all of their resources to stop the fighting, but would end in vain. During the protests, a helicopter would crash, killing 2 police officers.

Things would reach their breaking point on the second day, August 12th. While pro-leftists peaceful supporters were walking away from a protest point a car would race through the streets and crash into them, killing a woman and injuring 11 others. The car then proceeded to race away from the scene after the crash. The man would be later captured and identified as James Alex Fields Jr., who was a right-wing activist at the protests. The woman would be identified as Heather Heyer and she would become the symbol of the left-supporters and those internationally calling for peace.

After the crash, the protests ended and crowds all disbanded. President Trump would make multiple statements defending both sides of the protests, which were received very poorly by international media, politicians, and groups.

Trump Impeachment

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Soon after Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, a Special Counsel begun an investigation weather or not the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to have the election influenced and weather or not President Trump obstructed justice while the investigation occurred. The investigation had split Americans even more than before, yet polls suggested that a majority of Americans supported the investigation.

On April 30th, 2019 the Special Counsel concluded his investigation and it was announced that there was enough evidence of "Conspiracy to Collude" and "Obstruction of Justice" by President Trump and his campaign. The report was handed to Congress that day, and the official trial of President Trump began the same day by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. Only 4 days later on May 4th, 2019 Trump was the 3rd President in American history to be impeached by the House of Representatives. The case was handed to the Republican-held Senate for a conviction and final vote.

Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the Senate while the case proceeded. From June 15th to the 18th, witnesses were called to testify publicly. The prosecution's witnesses included Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Carter Page, James Comey, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, John Podesta, and most famously Hillary Clinton (along with other intelligence officials). The defense used considerably less witnesses, with Peter Strzok, again James Comey, and again Rod Rosenstein. The defense's lack to use witnesses were seen as a major weakness for them. The mostly watched day was the 18th when Hillary Clinton and James Comey were called to testify.

Closing statements were made on June 21st, 2019. The next day on June 22nd, after voting against a public deliberation, the Senators began close door deliberations.

On June 28th, the Senators emerged from deliberations and headed for a public vote. This day was the most watched out of all of the trial, with over 45 million people watching around the world. A two-thirds vote was needed to remove the president. On the obstruction of justice charge was approved with 67 for conviction and 33 against. The conspiracy to collude charge was defeated with a vote of 60 for conviction and 40 against. Still, with the obstruction of justice charge passed, the president was convicted and thus removed from office.

Bloody Sunday
The night of Trump's removal, a call to rise up against the leftists had sprung up on multiple websites across the country; most of them being exclusively being white nationalist affiliated and most notably 4chan. The call had gained attention very fast, and a massive counter-protest was planned for June 30th in Baltimore, Maryland.

City officials got very short notice of this, and Maryland governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard to attempt to quell possible conflicts between sides. Yet, the national guard weren't able to organize a plan in a day and were effectively powerless for the event. Baltimore mayor, Catherine Pugh herself called a state of emergency for the city, while having to completely rely on the Baltimore Police Department for keeping the peace for the city.

On the 30th, the day had started out peacefully with little over 2,500 leftist activists marching throughout Baltimore. Around 6:30pm EST the activists were met with counter-protests by alt-right and ultra-conservative activists as well. Police attempted to separate the groups, but it was no use. Antifa soon showed at the scene to give violent support of the leftist activists. At about 7:45pm, a right winged activist branded a semi-automatic rifle and threatened people around him. When people and police attempted to get the gun away, he fired into the surrounding crowd. All chaos broke lose, with police firing tear gas into the crowds, while also firing into the crowd in an attempt to kill the original shooter. The entire event was broadcasted internationally, and as it was happening President Pence's first decision was to declare a state of emergency in Maryland and the national guard were called in faster than Governor Hogan's first attempt.

As dawn broke on July 1st, the national guard had been able to dispersed the crowd. The final report had shown 28 people were killed (both leftist, right-winged and police) and over 320 people were injured. The original shooter had been killed in the ensuing riots, but his identity was kept secret by Baltimore Police. This massacre would be the start of a series of violent protests that would last over 2 years after Pence's swearing in between leftists and right-winged activists.

4th of July protests
After the events of July 1st, the media began calling the day "Bloody Sunday" for the high death count that occurred that day. President Pence called the event, "an act of harm against our nation's founding principals" and called for the protests to stop. Yet, at the time it occurred the nation's birthday was around the corner and many knew and had been planning for more protests that day.

Governors Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom, Charlie Baker, and Larry Hogan called in their respective National Guard into the major cities in case of protests. Just as expected thousands of leftists protesters and counter-rightist protesters showed up in cities across New York, California, Massatuchets, and Maryland during the nation's birthday. Since they had time to prepare, the National Guard was able to keep the protesters apart for the most part during the day.

There had been reports of 10 arrests, and a few fights between protesters but nothing as bad as the previous "Bloody Sunday". Still the staggering number of protesters during one day had been more than expected by the media and it was estimated that 13,500 protesters came out (from both sides) that day and many were shocked that there wasn't much heavy violence between the two sides.

Package Bombings
After the major protests of the 4th of July, things began to calm and people around the country had begun to think that things would calm between the two sides.

This idea was disrupted when on July 15th, 2019 when a mysterious package was sent to the California Governor's Mansion. When opened, the package exploded which killed 23 people and injured another 35. Neither Governor Newsom or his family were in the building, as they were attending an event in San Francisco at the time. Upon inspection by the FBI it was determined that a complicated bomb was sent by an unknown sender from the Los Angeles area. Governor Newsom called it, "...a dangerous attempt on my life and the values I hold." A warning was put out by the California FBI warning of suspicious packages and to report them to local police immediately.

3 days later on July 18th, an explosion inside the California Democratic Party headquarters killed 27 people and injured over 50 people. The source of the explosion was pinpointed to a package that was sent to the building by again an unknown source from a PO Box in a small northwestern California town. People across the country condemned the incident, and an official investigation was launched by the FBI and the CIA as domestic terrorism. Media began speculating that liberal California politicians were the target, which was backed up by officials.

On July 23rd, a suspicious package was sent to the local office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. This time nobody opened the package out of fear that it was a bomb. The San Francisco bomb squad were called in to investigate the package to see if it was a bomb or not. When opened by the bomb squad, the package exploded killing the 4 man team and injuring 13 others waiting outside the building. After this, Governor Newsom declared a state of emergency and a 6:30 PST curfew for all residents in the California area. The entire state was in a state of panic as nobody was sure when the next bomb was going to go off and the idea was floated to stop mailing service in the state until the predator would be found, yet was dropped for costing too much.

Sacramento Police Department received a call on July 30th by a concerned citizen who noticed a suspicious person near a PO Box with a similar looking package as the other bombings. Not wanting to risk the safety of officers, FBI/SWAT/Police were all sent to the location of the caller in an attempt to catch the possible bombing predator. When they arrived and confronted the suspicious person, the person revealed a semi-automatic riffle and began firing on responding offices. A firefight ensued and eventually the person was killed by Sacramento SWAT, along with 3 other officers being killed and 2 others severely injured in the fire fight. Upon investigation by the bomb squad the package that was put in the PO Box was a bomb confirming that the person who planted the package was the serial bomber.

The bomber was revealed to be a woman by the name of Sandra Beta De'Conner, a resident of Sacramento. While investigating her home, many bomb making materials were found along with a large manifesto type book authored by her in case she was killed or arrested. The manifesto revealed her hatred of Democratic politicians and had planned on moving from California Democrats to nationwide in an attempt to usher in a far rightist government and hoped to spark a Civil War between liberal states and conservative states. De'Conner had been a Trump supporter and was in attendance at Bloody Sunday, and the Charlottesville protests.

Outrage worldwide came pouring in, as blame landed at the feet of President Pence for "not doing enough to curb the hatred by his party," as one MSNBC reporter stated. Protests were sparked across the country again with liberal protesters against conservative protesters. This would lead to 10 more deaths and 100 injured on both sides. Eventually the protests came to a temporary calm after President Pence met with Governor Newsom and Speaker Pelosi on how to make a plan to deal with domestic terrorism and political extremism.

August Blackout
After the events of the package bombings in California, the sense of fear for domestic terrorism was at it's highest point. Around this time, the federal government had begun playing a bigger role in the events as a peace keeping force between the two sides. A poll taken in early August of 2019 showed that 52% of Americans feared of open conflict starting, along with 72% of people fearing domestic terrorism. The question wasn't if there were going to be more incidents, but when.

That question was answered on August 4th, 2019 when a group of armed men claiming to be part of the Neo-Nazi Patriot Front stormed 8 power stations belonging to American Electric Power. Where they were able to overpower security and force the shutdown of all the power stations, cutting power across the United States. Almost 5 million lost power over a 2 hour period in areas such as Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Chaos and confusion ensued in affected areas, as the origin of the power outage was unknown at first. Riots and looting were reported across the affected areas as well, with police, fire, and first responders unable to attend every need with little to no power.

When the sun rose on August 5th, an inspection team was sent to the multiple facilities thinking that the teams there needed assistance and were unable to contact for help. When the repair teams arrived they were met with gunfire by the terrorists. After this took place, it soon became clear the reason for the major blackout across the nation. The word was given police forces and soon a standoff began at the 8 power plants where the terrorists claimed that they would kill the workers of the plants if any moves were made.

The standoff would last for 3 days until the 8th when 3 of the 8 groups surrendered to the police, citing lack of food and clean water. The last 5 groups would hold out for another 2 days until they also surrendered citing the same issue on August 10th. All together 28 members of the group were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism among other charges. Power was restored and it was cited costing the federal government $270 million to repair damages across the nation from the blackout.

During the takeover, the leadership of "Patriot Front" went into hiding and were able to stay hidden despite intense searches by the FBI.