It’s coming! States are pushing back or seem to be. However, all the feds have to do to get them to take a knee is take away their funding. Most of the states in this union wouldn’t likely survive without federal dollars coming in aside from a select few. So...there is that. Will they cave and just go along or will there be a real convention?
I've said this a million times already; its going to come down to states over fed. We are either going to have basically an 'empire' or we are going to have states who go along with the 'empire' and states who do not, and fight to be some neo version city states.
One of the first things needing done, and it looks as if some are doing it/starting to, is to basically cut the fed's 'rights' over state citizens at the state line. The only real way to enforce this is the state looking at itself as an autonomous city state who has sovereignty over what happens within its borders as well as giving that reciprocity to other states. The second part of that is basically every state has to now have soft borders to disallow people from shit tier states just leaving their horrible voting decisions behind and coming to ruin your state with their 3 new people now outvoting your 2 people who have been in that state for years.
I think the real catalyst to all of this will be what happens when we finally see what the communists and the muppets in .gov finally trot out what they've wanted for so long, are hinting at, yet do not acknowledge; some form of domestic patriot act.
Whats the buzz words lately? Domestic terrorists. Funny, I don't see nor hear of any domestic terrorists doing domestic terrorist things. Hell, I don't even see bullshit fluff pieces on how the FBI or .gov or anyone has 'thwarted domestic terrorist plot'. Yet, all we hear lately is how domestic terrorism and racism (lol what?) are the absolute apex of threats towards the United States. Yeah. Ok.
We also all know who the biggest losers from the Patriot Act were right? No, its not the terrorists. Nope, not countries harboring/training terrorists. It was us - the United States citizen. It's the gift that keeps on giving under the blind promise of 'safety' in order to save us all from 'terrorism' that is so vaguely described, that it can be literally everything and nothing.
As soon as something can be labeled domestic terrorism, if it is, or not, or more likely a 'Gulf of Tonkin' type incident to shuffle in what is already planned and written - a domestic patriot act that will be sold to Americans as 'if you don't have anything to hide, this is to protect you', when in reality, we know its the exact opposite and only allows .gov to do whatever it wants, authorized by this extremely vague domestic policy with the only actual requirement being that whatever they want to do, has to be labeled as 'terrorism'.
The installation of it will need to be at the state level, as we aren't exactly a small country and fed level .gov doesn't have the resources. Sweet sweet bribes, kickbacks and financial threats will be made as well as a ton of local municipalities who are constantly bankrupt due to their consistent overspending on shit no one wants/needs/knows what it even is nor benefits from will embrace it. Some local/state police will jump over themselves at the vastly increased 'domestic terrorism' related slush fund. You can see where that goes from there.
The only thing that can unilaterally stop all of this, is for states to basically pick a side, and enforce their border sovereignty.