For me, the Scots supposedly reclaimed a few castles from the English in the independence war by disguising themselves as cattle in the dark and mooing as they approached the walls.
You're misreading the point. Baseline American violence is x11 of a decades long terror/counter terror campaign, without notably trying. An actual American state breakdown would hit Rwanda levels in a month.
I assume they'd act like walmart distro centers: get a significantbreak to build, threaten to leave the town with a useless building if they're ever raised