I'm not suggesting that we turn out the Army to supress Copperhead riots, which seems to be what you took from my comment. I was thinking more along the lines of a strategic communications campaign (aka propaganda) for home consumption--Buy Bonds, "Loose Lips Sink Ships," "Lucky Strike Green has Gone to War"--that kind of stuff.
I believe , by the way, that we may not be univocal on what is meant by politics. "Politics" in the sense expressed in that famous quote from St Carl has to do with inter-state relations not intra-state relations. It does not have the same sense as "all politics is local" as expressed by Tip O'Neill, which seems to be what is expressed in the quoted comment above.
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