The collapse of the United States was inevitable after the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. At that point the US ceased being a nation and instead became a multi lingual and multicultural empire. It might have been possible to hold the country together if the dominant culture was strong and confident enough in itself to demand integration and assimilation of the foreign settlers, and the inward migration was slow enough so that the heritage Americans didn't become overwhelmed. but clearly neither has happened. Even the best case scenario would have meant increasingly authoritarian government, an almost Fascistic civic nationalism that demanded complete loyalty from it's citizenry, with it's education and cultural institutions all geared towards reinforcing and promoting non ethnic allegiance to the state.
Smarter people than myself have been predicting this, with 2030-40 being the time frame for collapse into civil war. I believe the Coronavirus lockdown has sped things up significantly. I'm not into predictions but we can certainly learn lessons from similar imperial collapses . The USSR break up, Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq being examples from recent history we should study. What we see is an increasingly authoritarian central government that resorts to violence to enforce it's mandates as it loses the consent of the governed. But as the central government becomes more tyrannical it also perversely becomes weaker as the peripheral regions, especially those with differing ethnic demographics and religious loyalties, ignore the centers dictates and become alternative nexus of power and loyalty. The particular tragedy of the US is that the ethnic and religious nations have been mixed so thoroughly. There is little to no separation into distinct geographical regions, which means when the shooting war starts it will be horrendously bloody.
