Just don't point at a circus and tell me it's a conquering army. Armies march in straight lines and have a leader. This is a gaggle of armed clowns, and while a bunch of bumbling costumed jackasses with guns is undeniably very dangerous, I think you radically overestimate the sustainability of such a mob.

I reserve the right to revise my opinion. Who knows what kind of monster might rise up and turn these people into something effectual. But in the immortal words of Gaz Membrane, "They're so bad at it."

I expect their impact will be a lot like ISIS and Al-Qaeda... which will be convenient as hell, because it gives us a really good narrative platform to condemn them from. This is a BIG TACTICAL MISTAKE on their part IMHO.

There will be an occasional attack. People will actually get hurt. It will be tragic and needless and infuriating. They will remain UTTERLY impervious to any suggestion that their hypocrisy has driven them to become terrorists themselves. They might even a be a persistent force in uspol for a while.

But if there's one thing I've learned over and over and over again from being a strategy gamer: there's a REAL BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE between "able to harass an opponent effectively in a skirmish," "able to conquer actual territory," "able to HOLD that territory," and "able to govern that territory effectively."

We already KNOW they can't do the last one. Honestly? How the fuck can you people even pull doom out of this, when the Republicans are AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS over this already?! What the fuck is it with radical leftists being determined to pull defeat from the jaws of victory?