Rugged individualism...….Absolutely.
This is why I do everything I can do make myself self sufficient. The goal is to be in a place to raise two beef, 6 pigs, 30 chickens, half acre garden. I can feed myself and have excess. Plus defend it all.
If you start with the premise you will have to defend the Constitution in the US and war game it, you come up with being in a small militia, insurgency. Which means organizing and providing logistics for a small cell at a minimum, being able to shoot, move and communicate in your local area.