Webster defines civil war as 'a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country'. America for all intents and purposes is in the throes of its second civil war. Opposing sides are not states or regions, and its not being fought with conventional weapons.

One side sees its champion - a take-no-prisoners, no-holds-barred street fighter - as a wrecking ball aimed at the Washington establishment it has come to hate and believe is responsible for all its problems. The other believes America's democracy has been subverted from within, aided and abetted by the nation's chief nemesis. Power has been seized, they believe, by a deceitful, uncouth, charlatan motivated not by the best interests of the state but by his own and those of his fellow conspirators. The latter sees the special prosecutor as its best shot to restore democracy and punish its usurpers. 

So the mongoose and snake are squaring off. Only time will tell which will eat which. Either way it won't be pretty.