If there's one thing proven over and over in the reign of Obama's tyranny, it's that the political theory of am armed populace prevents hard tyranny is true and is demonstrated by a feckless and spineless Republican leadership that has succumbed to the Marxist left on everything but arms, lest they face something no one wants to face.
The marixists know what happens when they finish burning the constitution by destroying the last right, the RKBA. They WANT conflict. They are gamblers and bet on the country not repairing itself after things go hot. The country never fully recovered from the civil war, and it seems no other country on the planet has come back from the grips of either communism or socialism.
If we lose the battle of ideas and politics, I highly doubt a republic, infested with marxism, and wounded by revolution could arise from the ashes as still a republic.
I honestly think it would take a virtuous king to eradicate it, and restore order and virtue.
That's no longer America, either way. We have to win the political, educational, idealogical battle....