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The second you have a president willing to mobilize the most advanced military in the history of the world against its own populace there's no chance of realistically resisting.
When Martin L. King was murdered there were thousands of soldiers sent to the DC. I would say that movement was rather succesfull anyways.
I have absolutely no expectation that Trump will actually order the military on the US populace, but even if he tried it matters whether the military would follow such an order. It could always happen, that's part of the reason I wish our federal government was drastically reduced and our standing military disbanded, but I simply can't think so little of our troops that they would actually do it.

That said, if somehow that did happen one day I fully expect to die by their gun. At that point that army becomes an invading force and I'd feel like I have no choice but to fight.

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You mean like Abe Lincoln?