I can understand why you might think that is being disingenuous but I suspect the facts will bear me out in the long run. Last I checked (sometime last week) Kentucky led the nation in number of people arrested for the storming of the Capitol. Last year it was many of the same people showing up time and again when the two groups came to town and I suspect there is considerable overlap between them and the ones at the Capitol. I'm currently working on tracking down photos of those arrested here and in some of the surrounding states, I intend to compare them to shots from this summer and see how much (if any) overlap there is. (if/when I accomplish this it will be another post)
Capitol incident was disaffected MAGA Trumpsters
I'm curious, what do you think the 3%ers and Oath Keepers primarily consist of? I have photos of one of the leaders of the 3%ers that day with Trump bullshit on the mags for his AR even. Their professed ideology revolves primarily around the 2nd Amendment/guns/Constitution but they were present in Louisville in support of those who's job it would be to take those guns away were it to ever come to that, forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious of what they're actual motives are.
I suspect you are right in regards to the states' rights although I have my doubts that Trump wing of the GOP will be able to put together a coherent argument in that regard. SCOTUS, even before the Trump era changes seemed poised to possibly apply the incorporation doctrine in regards to guns and the 2nd Amendment. With this new court there hasn't been enough decisions yet to get a good feel for how they might go.
I feel like we're in for a rerun of the 90s in terms of the ones on the right. 'Widespread violence and destruction again' strikes me as disingenuous at best, well over 90% of protests last year were peaceful (figures I've seen are in the 95-97% range on that). Part of what got me writing about the protests on here was the disconnect between what I was seeing on the ground at protests and the narrative I was hearing from people who were getting their info from the media. While there was destruction and violence that occurred, it was a rarity rather than the norm. The various groups with the accelerationist outlook will definitely try and capitalize on any opportunity they get but we tried our best to stop them before they could here last year.
I think the closest we will come to regional balkanization and states resuming greater local authority was when Trump was passing the buck on covid to the states and trying to derail green initiatives (California's emissions agreements with automakers comes to mind). I'm with you on this though, once power has been centralized it doesn't go the other way without things getting really messy first.
At least literal chattel slavery isn't around to muddy the waters on the topic of secession, but the corporate interests and the greed of the tax man that fueled the Union last time are even stronger this time.
Agreed. I suspect that if we can get away from the 'socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor' then the tax man may not be quite as greedy but we'll probably never get to find out.
(PS my commander deck still isn't finished but I should have it done in the next couple days and will post it then!)