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Where to Stay SAFER in the U.S. “if” Trump’s MAGA Civil War Explodes into Widespread Violence

In a hypothetical large-scale domestic conflict structured around modern political divisions, heavily Democratic (“blue”) states in the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast—such as Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Vermont—would offer the most aligned governance, institutional backing, and population support for defending democratic constitutional norms.

NOTE: This video was produced more than two years ago, before Trump lied, threatened, and cheated his way back to the white House to avoid prison for what he did on January 6, 2021. Some of the possible predictions mentioned are now happening.

Democratic-Aligned Strongholds

The Pacific Coast (Washington and Oregon): These states possess robust, self-sustaining economies, secure geographic boundaries (bounded by the Pacific Ocean and mountains), strong agricultural and tech sectors, and state leadership firmly committed to democratic institutions

New England (Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine): Consistently ranking high in social stability, community resilience, and overall safety indexes, New England features deeply entrenched civic institutions, strong regional cooperation, and relative distance from primary logistics choke points

Still There Would be Internal Fragmentation: Political scientists and conflict analysts emphasize that a modern American conflict would not resemble the clean, state-vs-state battle lines of the 19th century. The primary division is urban versus rural rather than neat geographic regions, meaning virtually every state contains internal ideological friction.

True safety in any prolonged disruption relies less on state political labels and more on local resource security, including access to fresh water, regional food production, and community-level cohesion rather than macro-level state alignments.

NEVER FORGET who the real Donald John Trump has been for more than 70 years. And he hasn’t changed. He’s much worse!

Donald the Porn Star’s John Trump, who is a lifelong cheat, liar, family crime lord, an alleged pedophile, a convicted rapist, fraud, felon, also known as Cadet Bone Spurs, is the mastermind behind the failed violent, bloody coup attempt on January 6, 2021.

The Josh Kavanagh Thriller Series set during the Trump Era

by Lloyd Lofthouse

“We Know Where You Live! — Leave the Country or Sleep!”

I was up today before 0400. Sleep is a challenge. Since 1966, it always has been

When I sleep, my subconscious takes me to times and places I don’t want to revisit. That’s why I’m sitting here at 0519 writing this blog post when I should be trying to slumber for another hour or two.

I write in my thriller novels about violence and what it does to our minds and bodies. I do that every day for an hour or more.  I do that to avoid thinking about 1966, the year I spent in Vietnam in combat. A Marine. A field radio operator.

When I’m awake, I seldom think about that time or talk about what happened over there.

Before I sighed and surrendered to escape the demons waiting to pounce if I attempted to sleep again, I left the bed, thinking about the vital and dangerous job I had driving a Jeep in Vietnam and one specific day after one of our gun companies had been seriously hit.

Serving as a 2531 Field Radio Operator with the 1st Marine Tank Battalion in 1966, meant I was likely driving an M151 MUTT configured as an MRC-83 or MRC-110 communication jeep, stripped down, no armor, for maximum speed and visibility without doors or a weapons mount. We often drove along muddy, unpaved roads with a high risk of landmines or ambushes. The space behind the two front seats was filled with a combat radio. One of our M48 Pattons had hit a one of those IEDs, powerful enough to lift an almost 51-ton tank into the air before it dropped back down, blowing off its tracks. They crew survived with broken ear drums.

The next day, I drove that jeep to Charlie Company’s forward operating base, racing down one of those muddy one lane roads through a jungle behind a tanker truck carying a full load of fuel for the gun company’s tanks. They needed a resupply because the fuel they’d had blew up the night before when their base was overrun, ending in Martines fighting hand to hand with knives in their skivvies in the rain and mud.

I drove the jeep. A staff sergeant sat in the other seat making himself as small as possible as bullets snapped past us through the open cab.

During Donald John Trump’s first year in the White House, I received an old fashioned, unsigned letter in the mail with no return address. The postage stamp revealed it had been mailed from Florida. I live in California.

It said, “We Know where you live?”

After Trump won the 2024 election, the same or another Trump loyalist MAGA member sent me an email or left a comment on one of my blogs warning me to “Leave the Country or Sleep!”

I don’t like to sleep.

Start Reading The Patriot Oath to swear fidelity today!

I took an oath when I joined the US Marines to defend this country against the likes of Trump and MAGA. I’m not leaving. You may understand why if you read the one-star reviews for The Patriot Oath.

Refreshing the Josh Kavanagh Thrillers

UPDATED July 19, 2026: After a day or two and a few hours learning how to talk to an AI, this is the new cover for The Patriot Oath. So new, I haven’t had time to replace the old cover on the book’s Amazon page yet. That will happen later today and take time for Amazon to process before it appears.

ORIGINAL POST STARTS HERE

Here’s the final cover. I had to learn how to talk to an AI first and I’m a slow learner. But I finally got there and haven’t had time to replace the old cover on the books Amazon page yet.

“The primary reason to update a successful thriller series is to drive new sales by aligning the books with evolving design trends and online discovery habits, such as those on social platforms. This ‘rebranding’ strategy expands the target demographic and boosts visual recognition.” SOURCE: Jane Friedman

The Patriot Oath | published July 2, 2021
Never for Glory | June 23, 2023
Fiddling with Death | February 10, 2025

On July 13, 2026, orders for the series reached 7,474 eBooks, 135 print, and 1,592,394 KENP reads 

— The Patriot Oath’s future Cover Under Construction —

Earlier this month, my editor for the Josh Kavanagh Thriller series recommended a “new” website called Book Leopard, and I took a look. Impressed with what I learned from what was offered free, I decided to give it a try and paid $49 for one credit. 

I think Book Leopard offers a one-stop shop for authors to not only come up with a new book cover working with the site’s AI generator, but to provide a list of benefits that, in the past, took “me” years, months and weeks to learn while using multiple sites and never-ending research to produce.

At this time, my focus is the new covers for all three books in the series, and I’m still learning to work with their AI. The wordless cover above is for The Patriot Oath.  The text was there from the beginning, and then I asked the AI to remove the words.

I think asking the AI to do that will make it easier to add a public domain image of George Washington Crossing the Delaware, similar to how it was done on The Patriot Oath’s original cover. Most, who have read the book, may not know the image is there. It’s sort of camouflaged in the background behind the word OATH and my name. For me, that image is symbolic and readers don’t have to know it’s there.

George Washington was the first person to take the presidential oath to protect the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, but he did not write it himself. The specific language of the presidential oath was drafted and proposed during the Constitutional Convention in 1787 by delegates James Madison and George Mason.

As soon as “George Washington Crossing the Delaware” is added to the background near the bottom of the new cover image above, I’ll ask Book Leopard’s AI to put the words listed below back.

A JOSH KAVANAGH THRILLER
THE PATRIOT OATH
&
LLOYD LOFTHOUSE

If that goes smoothly, George Washington will be in his boat, lurking in the shadows behind my name.

Here’s what Book Leopard offers for the price of one credit (at this time $49).

Book Leopard is an interactive site where authors/editors guide the site’s AI to generate most of what’s needed to get an already written novel’s draft ready to publish and promote. Still, their AI cannot do the work alone. The author/editor must be part of the process. I think this AI is going to help authors/editors avoid weeks, months and even years of learning, work and eye strain, and get it done in a very short period of time.

The Price of One Credit Gets All of This for One Book

·      For any Genre

·    A spectacular cover

·      An amazing description

·      A great subtitle

·      3 Kindle categories

·      3 Amazon paperback categories

·      3 categories for non-Amazon sites

·      7 search keywords

·      Attention-grabbing text for advertising

·      12 Kindle categories for targeting Amazon book ads

·      12 paperback categories for targeting Amazon book ads

·      300+ keywords for targeting Amazon book ads

·      100 ASINs for targeting Amazon book ads

Fiddling with Death is OUT!

Launching Fiddling with Death

My Contribution: there isn’t much I can do at my age to defend the U.S. Constitution against domestic enemies like Donald Trump, his fanatical MAGA cult, and foreign enemies like Putin and that 3rd generation freak in North Korea.

What happened to the ballots for more than 11,000,000 voters in the United States?

What will Traitor Trump’s Project 2025 mean for the United States military and you?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-project-2025-trump-conservative-blueprint-heritage-foundation/

Project 2025, Explained

With Traitor Trump, everything is a projection, and he’s projecting his cowardice onto others, in this case, Gov. Walz.

Adam Kinzinger: The Despicable Attacks on Walz’s Military Service