A Good Start

We will have to see. This is not an exercise in being right about an academic point. The American Unorganized Militia and the armed Heritage American conservative demographic have been official dissident groups in this country for several decades at least. The Deep State takedown of the fledgling militia revival movement in the 1990’s left a very distinct mark on the members of this ideology and imparted a simple rule of thumb for survival. That rule was to not get mixed up with unvetted people or fall in with the plans of any fools. Taken to the extreme, this leads to “leaderless Cell’ theory and the Grey Man approach. That these are not the ideal school solution for winning, does not mean that they do not have merit or that they cannot be used as alternate means to the same end. The Security Apparatus certainly still uses the same tactics that worked for them in the 90’s, and getting rolled up by association does not help the cause. Conspiracy is a ridiculously easy crime to prosecute.
The enemy in contrast, has been very busy building networks, as I’m sure Shelby is implying. That worked for them since they were unofficial adjuncts of the Security Apparatus itself, like the Protestant militants empowered to fight a dirty war against the Provisional IRA on behalf of the British Government.
Perhaps things are changing. There seems to be a notion of declaring ANTIFA and other Marxist militant franchises as terrorist organizations and charging those funding them under RICO. If that happens, and there is certainly ample justification for both, the vast above ground network they have built should lead directly to the arrests of the most dangerous and influential among them and some J6 treatment in Gitmo. The wealthy will flee to foreign jurisdictions where they might buy shelter and the rank and file will drop the revolutionary larping act and try to blend back in to main stream American life. If the Administration has the courage to carry this out, they could wreck the armed militant Left with a minimum of trouble, If they fail to act, then the color revolution will probably come and the chances are good that the Deep State will have official political control of the government again and in short order. I doubt they will waste any time declaring all “Ultra MAGA” persons to be terrorists and rounding up the key players on the link diagrams of the Right that they must have. So in either case, it just might be the faction that has the most organization that ends up taking the most casualties in the kickoff.