This is something I wonder about... do they really want the whole country or do they want to make things so unpalatable that the country balkanizes and disinteg

This is something I wonder about... do they really want the whole country or do they want to make things so unpalatable that the country balkanizes and disintegrates? It's frankly really hard to get a read on what these extremists want, because if you play it out far enough, it looks pretty ridiculous, IE: be careful what you wish for as a lot of those right-wing states are going to be even poorer and more backward than they are now.