I'll speculate a bit.

It seems an observable fact that people in rural communities don't act independently until they are personally threatened.

However, awareness is quite high, and this is generating a lot of nervous energy which could be focused if the messaging were there and a credible leader stepped up to give direction.

Currently that leader is Donald Trump, and the nervous energy is focused on November. Personally I think it will be a decisive win for DJT. But it's worth thinking about what happens if he does in fact lose, or if the election is competently stolen from him (same thing effectively).

General Flynn has already written a letter that shows he knows the deal. The letter put people on notice that the time to act to defend the republic may come soon. I don't know what the circulation on that letter was, but thusly primed "patriots" in rural communities might step up if explicitly instructed by a trusted figure what to do, where to go, what to bring, and what to expect. Flynn has kind of positioned himself to be such a person.

On the other hand, DJT might get his second term, he might dismantle the organized crime syndicate that controls washington, a majority of citizens may find a renewed patriotism given all the country has gone through with the marxists and all, and a field of new-conservative up-and-comers in the molds of Josh Hawley and Mike Gaetz may find success at the polls. If this is the country I wish it were.