People say we are in a cold civil war. This is wrong. We LOST a cold civil war, because we had sticks and our enemies had guns. The best plan any of us has is to retreat to the countryside, because that's what you do when you lose.
When they started with violence they had power; they could use violence without getting stomped by the state. Today the left has this power because the leftist state is always open to hearing that it needs to be more leftist; against the right the state is very effective.