I like it, given the current situation it is plausible. I think they would go to assassinate both the Potus and VP.
Otherwise the country would coalesce around them. I hope the Pentagon is taking notes.
Legitimacy is key, secession has been tried and failed because the military in general would not follow an illegitimate leader. Texas would be the temporary seat of the Federal Republic while insurrection is going on in Washington DC. The Red States would express loyalty to the legitimate government. Blue states would express loyalty to Pelosi’s new model federal government. This would create two Blue clusters the East Coast and the West Coast.
Trump would issue an executive order that these states are in revolt and ask the red parts of those states to re-form new state governments: in Illinois case practically the whole state will re-form except for the Chicago area. Even the Western counties of New York would re-from leaving the Blue states nothing more than city states.
As illegal and treasonus as it could possibly be, the demoKKKrat states (I hate the "blue" state terminology applied to the Commie states. They, in fact are the true "red" states.) will demanding an intervention by the United Nations and China will be more than willing to provide any needed troops if they are deployed in defense of the demoKKKrat cities and states.
That said, the CCP has been instrumental in fomenting the Communist revolution in the USA, and rest assured they have innumberable sleeper agents and cells here already.
If Biden is elected, the White House will become the western Red Palace.
Think I'm nuts? China has owned the Clintons for more than 30 years. The Clintons and their fellow travellers are everwhere in the governments agencies.
China is the brains of the "Red Beast," The demoKKKrat party is the mouth and legs. Antif/BLM are the hands.