The first civil war started with pro-slavery Missourians setting up false claims in Kansas, so they could vote pro-slavery in Kansas. The real Kansans objected, and the blood-letting began in Lawrence. Fort Sumter was just the official start of organized hostilities. Wars don’t begin on a date certain according to schedule. Lin Yutang’s A Moment in Peking illustrates how Japanese aggression against China began long before the invasion of Manchuria or the Rape of Nanking.
So was the shooting of Scalise the real beginning of CWII. Maxine’s call to “form a crowd around” Trump supporters? The leftards will say it was in Charlottesville, but they’ll say anything. I suspect it’s been brewing for a long time. I even wrote a really bad novel about it, incredibly still available on Amazon.
Maybe its first rumblings were in the stolen election of 1960?