Our country can be seen as one with weakening institutions and loss of faith in government in general. With the 2020 Presidential election fraud now being shown as fact and not a conspiracy theory, people’s trust in the electoral process has greatly eroded. The fact that democrats are en masse refusing to clean up elections with the SAVE Act, indicates that their ideas will not win elections, so they have to cheat to gain or retain power.

Another disputed presidential election involving widespread claims of fraud, more lawfare and legal battles, or refusal to concede, could spark widespread protests turning violent. Flashpoints might include attempts to disrupt certification, state-federal clashes over vote counting, or targeted political violence such as assassinations of officials or candidates.

The American war dead numbers got me thinking about civil war. According to long-standing historical estimates, our American Civil War killed about 620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers. With the US population from the 1860 census at 31,443,321, that represented about 2% of the population. So, if an American Civil War II kicked off, with a current population of about 343 million people, an equivalent 2% death toll would be almost 7 million.There are 33 states with 7 million or fewer people. 7 of those are right around that number. Indiana, for example, is 7.01 million. There’s some context. Even more – that would be about 14 times our World War II losses. 
Now, there are a bunch of assumptions and errors built into that comparison. Perhaps a more recent example? Spain’s civil war in 1936 – 1939 had about 500,000 war dead with a population of 25 million population. Huh. 2%. Maybe this is a thing? But that would be a doctoral research thesis.