My only quibble would be we're not at 1989 yet-- we're at 1773 and the Boston Tea Party, when other "ruffians" took over some ships.
Lexington and Concord are probably not far off once that drooling corrupt idiot takes office and pushes his gun control agenda (look and see now how many RINOs jump ship and join in a new "assault weapons" ban).
The final outcome of this struggle is unknown, but it is far easier to bring down a modern state than the British Empire in the 18th century. All that digital infrastructure is oh so delicate: fiber cable, power transmission, water pumps, bridges, etc. Look at the relatively bloodless IRA London bombing campaign in the 1990s: place a bomb, call it in so everyone is evacuated from the political and financial centers and damage buildings and destroy windows for blocks around. Over and over again. Makes governance and commerce impossible.
If there is a “civil war” it won’t be conventional. It will be a lot like The Troubles.