I’m less and less convinced there is one. Sure, there was one. There were actually many! Libertarian think tanks have been brainstorming ways to cut the federal government down to the military for decades, the theocrats have been working on their Dominion theory, the war hawks have been planning their wars against Iran and China, but the people calling the shots have no idea what they’re doing. They’re just acting out the most dumbed-down versions of those factions’ propaganda because that’s where their comprehension meets its limits. The entire edifice is becoming increasingly unmoored from reality and they’re all busy acting out their fever dreams in real life. It’s pure nihilism; destroy for destruction’s sake. And it’ll continue until it hits a resource constraint; until there’s a crisis because the ports are empty or the market finally crashes because the smart money’s done ripping the copper out of the walls and needs foreign safe havens to escape to, or someone’s itchy trigger finger starts a conflict that the country cannot win, and that’s when gravity’ll kick back in and everyone will feel the empty air beneath their feet and the scrambling will start.