I think if anything the article vastly understates how bad things will get if it really kicks off.
I also think people don't understand how much the enemies of America and freedom are working to make it happen.
There is not going to be as much straight battles as there will be constant roving death squads, sappers & protection squads.
There won't be any "Civilian bystanders", families, women, children will all have to fight kill or be killed or both.
Those in the LE and Mil side that think they might go along with orders & see how it goes, may find that while they are out doing the bidding of the communists, their houses, families and neighborhoods are being eliminated by those fighting the communists at all costs.
Pretty much anything infrastructure wise that can be destroyed will have somebody trying to destroy it & anything connected to the internet will have every hacker trying to break in and wipe everything or get all the information they can (both foreign and domestic, both state sponsored and privateer).
There is going to be a whole lot of killing on sight and asking questions never.
From the side of the enemies of America and freedom, from known actors like China, Russia, NK, Iran, Brussels to other groups bound by ideology not nationality there is a huge advantage to be gained.
Imagine how history would have changed if right before WWII kicked off, the Germans and the Japanese had managed to get America to have civil war II raging for several years. By the time the civil war got done the Germans & the Japanese would have ruled the world and been able to force the now rebuilding America to accept the new order of America as the last free country in the world & all the rest under Axis control.
Let's say China wants to move up to number 1 or 2 world power or at least take over the pacific & make it theirs instead of ours.
Well if we are busy killing each other off for several years and getting our infrastructure totally crushed, who is going to stop them?
Let's say Russia wants to put the pesky snotty Europeans in their place and the USA happens to be out of the picture for years, well there is nobody going to stop them from rolling on in and doing as they please.
Let's say you are one of the EU/Brussels one world government under the EU/UN believers who wants a new world order where the Bureaucrats of the EU/UN decide everything and control the money etc. With the USA out of the picture in a big way for half to a whole decade, you can change the world reserve currency to Brussels controlled Euros, then leverage that to make a new world currency order and all the political power that goes with it (which we currently enjoy).
While a lot of the rumbling boil is organic, I would suggest that it would be short sighted to not take into account that there may be many other influences, stoking the discontent, adding fuel to the fire & hoping to help kick start a conflagration for their own ends.