Presidential Election 2020. able to split American society and even cause civil war in the country. This warning was given by Harvard University professor Neil Ferguson in The Sunday Times.. According to the historian, the cultural conflict in the United States is becoming more and more aggravated, we can already say that civil war between the parties is raging on the Web. Not add optimism and recent incidents with the distribution of bombs to opponents of the current President Donald Trump. They indicate that the contradictions in society are seriously aggravated. Emily Whalen, a University of Texas historian, analyzed the risk of civil war in an article published on the portal Task & Purpose. She based her conclusions on the approach of journalist Jonathan Randal, who predicted the civil war in Lebanon..

Whalen emphasizes that although the United States and Lebanon are completely different states, one must keep in mind that civil wars are breaking out in different countries - big and small, rich and poor.. In 1974. Randal developed a kind of "detector" that allowed him to predict a civil war almost a year before it began.. Based on him, Whalen believes that Americans are worried. She also complains that the head of the White House is rude and the government is ineffective.. All this, according to the scientist, makes a civil war in the United States possible, although not inevitable.