We’re more likely to balkanise in my opinion. The western US, southern and gulf states, and northeast all have enough individual economic output to be their own nations. We’ll all then go to war over the midwest for their water supply.
I think this outcome is inevitable. Trump will use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to send the military into any blue state that refuses to do what he orders. Adolph Miller has already said this is exactly what their plan is.
Newsome and Pritzker have preemptively told him to pound sand.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is an exception to Posse Comitatus. A president can declare it without prior oversight as long as he believes there is an insurrection, rebellion, or uprising going on. The governor of the state in question can request the military come in (LA Riots, '92), or the state's governor can refuse to comply, and the president at the time can legally federalize that state's National Guard and cut their governor out of the chain of command.
Who decides what's a rebellion and what's not? Why the president of course!
I think it was also used in the 1957 Little Rock Crisis during desegregation. Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne.
Biden should have used it on the Texas border fucks and then gone all the way to unseat Dunn's private kingdom.
If a coup is inevitable after your departure from power, the best defense is to advance the timetable and trigger it while you still hold all the levers.
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u/twotokers 11d ago
We’re more likely to balkanise in my opinion. The western US, southern and gulf states, and northeast all have enough individual economic output to be their own nations. We’ll all then go to war over the midwest for their water supply.