In most any political movement there are going to be some just out for themselves no matter what, MAGA included. You speak of history, okay 50 plus years ago while I was in school we studied black history, how slavery got started in the late 1600's up to the Civil War and civil rights movements afterwards up to when I was in school in the early 70's. I also learned that we had not 1 but 3 attempts of states leaving the union. The Civil war being the most known, but also the South Carolina Nullification crisis in 1832 which Andrew Jackson stopped in its tracks and during the War of 1812, parts of New England opposed the war with Britian and elements of Massachusetts and Conn. tried to ban together to leave the union but could not garner enough support to push it thru. Just giving you some my own personal experiences in that regard.