the hate for those supposed to be ancaps really is strange to me, though; you'd think there'd be more your-heritage-is-rebellion.png types but it really seems like all real "atomic individualism" has left the politically-conservative scene, disregarded as "a pipe dream" because "the US military has drones." It's a really common misconception. If there's one thing the left and the right agree about, it's that the US Military being turned on any subset of the US citizenry would be an absolute massacre, impossibly one-sided with the technology of the US military vs some AR-15s and AK-47s. You hear jokes about it, with Republicans as the butt of the joke for democrat comedians, and ancaps the butt of the joke for Republican shitposters.
But... you really must not be paying any attention to the Bundy Ranch, or understand what it means when Ruby Ridge and Waco put the feds in a position where they had to show their ruthlessness, their willingness to win over all moral, ethical or interest-based reasoning. They can be held off, and they will make a fool of themselves if held off long enough. It could be very costly, but with enough wilderness and motte-space to keep them at the extreme distance, with effective low-power monitoring systems with back-up communications modes, autonomous devices that don't have to receive instruction, the fact any raspi-alike has more than enough power to do 30fps video analysis and associated targeting for homemade (nerf) turrets.
Optimistic? Probably, but that's way better than selling out to a party that will never follow through on promises for its citizens, or a party deliberately angling for greater powers, or shribertarians trying to only play the classic game of politics and never accomplishing shit.