Trump Rally highlights - scary rhetoric: "They will strip Americans of their Constitutional rights"

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36. Good analysis

as for the brown states, I think most of them would be severely tempted to join a CSA 2.0 especially Wyoming and Kansas. As for Utah, the Mormons there are pretty right wing, and might jump at the chance to have a nation where same-sex marriage and abortion are outlawed.

Also, looking at this as whole states may be the wrong approach. When West Virginia was broken off of Virginia during the midst of the Civil War, it was a split off of the northwestern counties. I could see that happening with parts of Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, and Idaho. Similarly, progressive areas of the red states would ally with the blue states in your diagram, but if they were able to split, it would leave pockets of the current USA surrounded by the CSA 2.0. Think Berlin if you want an idea what that looks like. Yes, different issues in both cases, but sometimes, there are political enclaves of one entity contained within another.

What the final result would look like is anybody's guess, but the basic premise of my post is that Trump would find it personally profitable to try something "batshit crazy". He's not just going to fade into the sunset. And if he is threatened with prison, he will surely try some sort of gambit to avoid that, and there are places in the USA as it is today that would be sympathetic to his plight, and receptive to his message.