Isn’t part of the open carry, pro gun brigade essentially trying to immanentize the eschaton?
traditionally it's usually had millenarian sentiment - impending societal collapse, possibly accompanied (or precipitated) by race war
the 90s militia movement - a direct precursor, minus the 4chan shitposting vibes - was heavily pre-millenial dread - new world order, black helicopters, etc
sometimes the millenarianism is literal, i.e. things like Christian Identity
it's hard to place boogaloo in these lineages - I'm halfway through that bellingcat piece and it's already deep into a black hole of trying to suss out meaning from 4chan, memes and FB shitposting. the paranoid style in American politics is nothing new - it is omnipresent - but it's never been drenched in irony before. obviously that's a product of Internet, meme, and specifically 4chan culture. it makes everything slippery and ambiguous, in what was already a world of tangled symbology and beliefs. because it's so ambiguous, there are probably a wide rang of views (including some racist, if not all) under the boogaloo umbrella. I'd guess that to some degree it's for the lolz but no one - including (maybe especially) participants - could tell you what degree is, exactly.
what I do know is - if you have people dressed up in tactical gear carrying rifles (even if some portion are just realistic-looking paintball guns) around on the street in tense situations with crowds and cops, sooner or later there will be shooting
also - the great confusion surrounding all this is perfect cover for organized, directed paramilitary violence, as I keep going on about - should anyone want to make that happen