The problem is too many people expect it to be a glorious revolution (think Tzars) and not a shit sorta just falls apart one (think Ottomans).
Individual states have been telling the federal government to piss off for over a decade now. Blue states over immigration policing and drugs, red states over land use policy and more recently quarantine (with threats of not cooperating over guns; there are right now probably a half dozen counties in the country where the ATF is not welcome). You'll just see more and more of this as the red states decide to stop cooperating with the central government entirely.
The last straw will be over taxation, when states refuse to permit enforcement of federal income tax. But by the time things get that far, the federal government will have already been decisively proven impotent at stopping the states from doing whatever they want.
They already are and have been for a while.
The problem is too many people expect it to be a glorious revolution (think Tzars) and not a shit sorta just falls apart one (think Ottomans).
Individual states have been telling the federal government to piss off for over a decade now. Blue states over immigration policing and drugs, red states over land use policy and more recently quarantine (with threats of not cooperating over guns; there are right now probably a half dozen counties in the country where the ATF is not welcome). You'll just see more and more of this as the red states decide to stop cooperating with the central government entirely.
The last straw will be over taxation, when states refuse to permit enforcement of federal income tax. But by the time things get that far, the federal government will have already been decisively proven impotent at stopping the states from doing whatever they want.
I think we're still a couple decades from that.