If you’re a reactionary, the template is the Revolutionary War. You’re a red, white, and blue patriot doing battle with an oppressive, overreaching central government that taxes and spends too much and actively opposes your values. It has to be overthrown by any means necessary, including insurrection. If it includes a second Tea Party, so be it.
If you’re on the left, it’s the Civil War. A majority with history on its side is doing battle with a reactionary white cultural minority that unapologetically oppresses people of color and sexual minorities and threatens liberal democracy to keep its hands on power. What the country needs is a crushing victory over the bigots and a Second Reconstruction–this time, a successful one.
Which one is more accurate? You decide.