Bigworld, It appears the 'alternative media' is now almost as controlled as the mainstream media. For the elites, it isn't enough to set the mainstream narrative for both sides of the political spectrum (CNN vrs Fox, PBS vrs Limbaugh/Hannity), you also need to control the alternative narratives, even down into the 2nd and 3rd tier 'alt' sources.
The coup and 'civil war II' ideas are pushed, and then spread by people like Paul Craig Roberts as he references articles from Federalist.com and Zero Hedge. The same thing is done on the political Left.
But what exactly is the wider goal? One explanation is that they need Trump out and a 100% compliant puppet in, ahead of the bankruptcy of the US and adoption of the SDR. They might want a constitutional crisis to coincide with a general breakdown in the US. So a simultaneous political and economic crisis, with a divided, confused and befuddled public willing to accept any outcome offered.