Another Civil War can be prevented -- But at a great cost

We look back to the drama of the unfolding crisis of 1860 as a morality play, with the star being the young Abraham Lincoln, now known as the "Great Emancipator."  If he did earn this approbation, it was by default rather than intention.  Lincoln was a man of his times, who was the moderate compromiser who was grudgingly accepted by those who actually were willing to go to war to emancipate the enslaved people in the southern states. 

Now some six generations after this civil war, we are on the verge of another one, this one with unfathomable  death and carnage. While the number of militants in the insurrection at the Capitol were numbered in the thousands; those poised for committing violence at the inauguration and afterwards would be in the millions, made up of those who revere Donald J. Trump with the same intensity that he is hated by his adversaries.  

At this point the actual count of the Presidential vote on November 3rd is irrelevant.  Personally, I believe that the minor errors, those that occur in all elections, were nowhere near enough to have changed the result,  For the sake of this proposal, it really doesn't matter.  

Donald Trump actually did win the election of 2016. For this, for him becoming the most powerful person in the country, maybe the world; he should not be blamed. Rather it was the American people's decision in casting their votes.  He could not transform who he is, and to castigate him for it may be cathartic, but at this crossroads; when there is an opportunity to prevent a national catastrophe, we dare not indulge in this visceral hatred, when there is an alternative.    

President Donald Trump (his title remains when retired) could become the founder of a new entity, an association of States that would have looser ties with the United States of America.  Article Five of the United States Constitution provides for a constitutional convention, that could result in coalitions of states with their own rules. . Our founders included this in the realization that unforeseen events could occur such as we are now experiencing.   

The violence, hatred and death at the Capitol on the January 6th will be repeated after the inauguration unless there is a resolution that is not predicated on the vilification of Donald J. Trump.  His militia, perhaps in the millions, is already in transit, on the way to the National Capital, along with many Capital cities, with their machine guns in the holding section to be retrieved at their destinations.

Appeasement takes an emotional toll, yet the alternative, in my opinion, is worse.