Just like the Cold War that saw heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, the nation is entering the 2024 elections in a “cold Civil War” pushing Republicans and Democrats to verbal clashes and possibly violence, according to military expert and Fox host Pete Hegseth.

He coined the phrase as a way to draw attention to the need to depoliticize the military so that if it is called on to diffuse a civil war, both sides will view it as a nonpartisan referee.