American conservative scholar Angelo M. Codevilla wrote that almost the entire ruling class has resisted the 2016 election result, making this "cold civil war" against a majority of the American people and their way of life. Anbound scholars pointed out that the concept of "cold civil war" in the United States is unusual in that it is related to the fact that it not only concerns the United States but also the world. It would require more time to observe if this is an exaggerated expression of social contradictions or a true manifestation of real political.