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>tl;dr, it probably wouldn't have lead to Civil War, but the tone of American politics would have been changed for the foreseeable future, and would look more and more like some kind of even worse version of Northern Ireland at the height of 'The Troubles'.
You’re right, but the political landscape is already changing. Trump getting assassinated would accelerate that, certainly, but it wouldn’t have happened in the first place if we weren’t already headed there.
We’ve been going down this road for a long time, it’s just gotten a lot faster in the last 10 years.