If you want to win a modern civil war, start reading Giap and Mao. Not for their political points of view—but how to win a guerilla war. THAT is the only way the deep state will go down.
On the coast their will be anarchy, I agree. The country is to big and too populated to paint with such a broad brush. It really is 50 countries, it is just that most of us have forgotten that. I'll come back....
their = there.
General Washington kind of did that.