I sincerely hope it doesn't come to civil war. Win, lose, or draw, nobody wins. Everybody loses.

@Flyingsaucesir It's going to happen anyway, may as well make it sooner rather than later.

@TomMcGiverin There's that consistent pessimism again

I don't think I need to explain to you the illogicality of saying a calamity might as well happen sooner rather than later. We're all going to die someday. Should we all just take poison tomorrow and get it over with?

And I get that you are certain that a second civil war will happen. Well, since you know so much, tell us what it will look like. How many combatants on each side? How many casualties? What strategies? What tactics? What focal points? What duration?

The fact is, you don't know. Nobody knows with certainty what the future will bring.

@Flyingsaucesir I don't know those kind of specifics, nobody does. But what we are facing in the future appears to be like a combination of the Purge movies and The Handmaid's Tale, assuming those assholes win.

@TomMcGiverin The specifics I ask for are really only broad outlines. And yet neither you nor anyone else can say what they are. I think this shows that statements like "there will certainly be a civil war" are kind of meaningless. After all, some would argue that we are already at war, that the first shot was fired at Ruby Ridge, that the Morrow Building in Oklahoma City was a victory for the alt right, that the mass shootings in Buffalo and elsewhere represent military actions carried out by soldiers of the resistance, blah, blah, blah. Bloody as they are these incidents pale in comparison to the carnage of the Civil War, which left 600,000 Americans dead and a president assassinated. The difference between then and now is vast. So I'll say it again: unless you can provide some details as to the broad outlines, to say that civil war is inevitable is meaningless. A better statement would be, it's a real possibility.

@Flyingsaucesir Whatever..

Sentencing is not really the DoJ’s role in a trial.

I feel you; it's tempting to lock 'em up and throw away the key. But there is also something to be said for judicial restraint. The people who have received sentences so far have been low-level dupes of the Done Cheato. They are to he pitied as much as feared. And, as @rainmanjr points out, sentencing is not DOJ's role.