They will not, because unlike BLM/Antifa conservatives have a lot to lose on an individual basis. If someone is very successful in life and will likely continue to be successful, there is very little reason for them to risk all of it purely on principle. Couple that with the media having already laid the groundwork for only conservatives to get the title of terrorist (while Antifa/BLM get the title of patriot) it just isn't going to happen. At most there will be a few hundred "far right wing extremists" arrested on the 6th and there will be four plus years of grumbling like they did for the eight years of Obama.
It will depend on what there is to lose as you point out...but if individual property, freedom of speech, worship, movement are constricted in the ways suggested by a Biden presidency, then not acting could mean losing everything. I do agree that conservatives tend to die by "a thousand cuts" by not acting quickly enough. But I think we are in a very different place in history. The left's agenda is not banal, and will not illicit the typical conservative apathy.
Even if taxes are doubled and freedoms are significantly reduced, most normies still wont do anything about it. They will still have their two cars and four bedroom homes in the suburbs and all the other comforts they enjoy. Nothing Biden has proposed will actually change more for them than taking up arms would. Ironically, it is the same reason why the elite in North Korea don't just oust the Kims when they could easily do so.
On the flip side, the far left is made up of subhuman thugs and twenty something losers who live in their parent's basement. Those are the kind of people who will burn shit to the ground because even if they get caught and are thrown in jail their life wont significantly change for the worse. They also have the media telling them that it is totally understandable that they want to burn shit down and that people who don't understand are the real terrorists.
You have a point, but Trump followers also include a lower to upper middle class of "deplorable" who don't own a bunch of shit, but love their freedom. This is not a battle between rich and poor or young and old. It is a battle for those who believe in the Constitution and those who don't.... I do agree that their are still a lot of zombie normies who are totally asleep..and will apathetically sit on their couches waiting for the CNN news to start.
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