Via Troutfishing's diary we find this great piece on militant right-wing separatism in Blog For Our Future:
If this is just political grandstanding to energize the base, they're playing with fire, and they need to bring this incendiary campaign to a screeching halt. Right now. This Mickey Mouse pussyfooting around, play-acting at sedition is criminally dangerous chickenshit politics that puts the short-term needs of the Republican party ahead of the long-term viability of the American democracy they've sworn to uphold. In case the party leaders haven't noticed, their base has taken them as seriously as a heart attack -- and they're genuinely making ready for armed revolt.
I'm not adverse to cutting off a small, unpopulated, remote corner of Texas or Montana -- removing any nukes and other DOD assets of course -- and setting it aside for militant right-wing separatists to try and run. Because armed gangs aren't generally well known for their willingness to work together, sharing power and wealth. It's doubtful these militia clowns can cooperate with each other well enough to run a medium sized town on their own for long, much less a small nation. Without mountains of US money and resources, i.e., 'foreign' aid, odds are it would descend into a dominionist Mogadishu. But give em a chance. Maybe they'll surprise us all and everyone will end up happy.