President Lincoln had rounded up every traitor and slave owner in the South and had them executed. The American South was a shithole before and after the Civil War and it's a shit now. Southerners are morally depraved and their depravity is a result of their heredity. Lincoln's desire for peace and harmony over justice allowed this depravity to remain and plague humanity ever since.
The South is being punished with COVID-19 and hurricanes but that's not enough. As this new civil war heats up the right strategy will be attack attack attack and take no prisoners and when the MAGAts are defeated the oligarchs will be soft targets. They have a choice. They can give up their wealth of they can die trying to protect it.
COVID-19 will kill more than 400.000 by 2021 and most of them will be MAGAts. That's a good start but it won't be enough unless there are no effective COVID-19 vaccines.
Can a bloody civil war can be avoided only if the good guys surrender. Surrender is not an option. As I see it, the South needs to experience another Sherman's march to the sea and 5 year reign of terror.