Oh, I do think that the US would use the military if a civil war erupted. It will be guerilla warfare against the most powerful military ever. And it's why everyone is afraid. Which is also why we need to be smart and strike.

A divorce is an agreement in this scenario.

Because the new nations that would form would themselves be rich nations and nuclear powers. Do I need to explain how simple minded and abjectly cowardly the modern day Republican cultist is?

Except these people need to own the libs

That’s silly. They hate us, sure. But they would gladly be rid of us. Do you think the typical Republican cultist knows how poor their states are, how they have low life expectancies compared to liberal states, how uninsured they are, how dependent they are on tax transfers from rich states?

Others like the Christian nationalists want us gone

Exactly. So give them an option of separating the normal states from them and see what happens. I bet they will gladly agree to it so long as they get to keep Dear Leader as their king.

Except Trump wouldn't

Of course he would. Anything to let him cling to power.