The issue with articles is that we have the 60s and 70s as a benchmark in US history where things were alot more unstable. We got massive race riots that make the 2020 ones look tame, with triple the death count. We had massive political instability with the Dem convention riot,watergate,Nixon's resignation, the panama papers etc. We had the loss in the Vietnam war, the recession, the oil crisis, intense resentment and opposition in the South due to desegregation and so on. Not to mention a fitter,less complacent,more organised,more hardened populace than we have now. But there was no collapse or civil war. The same article could have been written back then.