Docker not reachable on Arch Linux - docker

Question

I have researched this issue extensively to no avail, and also asked on unix.stackexchange.com also to no avail, so I'm asking here in hopes someone else has some insight into why this is occurring, as asking on both the unix board as well as github has shed no insight whatsoever.
I cannot get Docker to play nice on Antergos, or be reachable without sudo. Running container builds with sudo causes a number of issues, such as ssh keys not being detected and nginx not being recognized. This problem arose about 3 days ago, and rolling back has not made any difference. Uninstalling docker completely and reinstalling also did not make any difference. Neither has updating my configuration, permissions, or any other available setting.
System version: 4.17.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 18 09:56:24 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Current docker version: 18.04.0-ce (also tried on all versions up to current 18.05 to no avail, have rolled back one version at a time with no effect).
Existing research led to the typical issue being that the user needs to be in the docker group to circumvent sudo, however I am, and it is still not working. I have also checked here, here, and here, and all of them offer the same (not working) answer.
Please do not suggest checking my user group or adding my user to the docker group, as this is not the issue, as outlined below.
Everything worked fine until a couple of days ago. I am inclined to believe an automatic update broke it.
Below is some context:
Output of groups
root http docker users wheel
When calling any docker command without sudo (eg docker info, docker ps, docker run ... docker-compose up, etc), I get the following:
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at tcp://localhost:2375. Is the docker daemon running?
It is definitely running. systemctl status docker yeilds the following:
● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-07-20 14:52:54 EDT; 21min ago
Docs: https://docs.docker.com
Main PID: 472 (dockerd)
Tasks: 50 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 139.0M
CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service
├─ 472 /usr/bin/dockerd -H fd://
├─ 620 docker-containerd --config /var/run/docker/containerd/containerd.toml
├─ 802 docker-containerd-shim -namespace moby -workdir /var/lib/docker/containerd/daemon/io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux/moby/e0942c95c35608cecbbe761d27a2c5386d9faec072cf8031>
├─ 818 bash -c echo "RESTARTING GUlP COMMAND" && npm rebuild node-sass && npm upgrade && npm update && npm install && gulp && tail -f /dev/null
└─1572 tail -f /dev/null
It is likewise displayed when running htop and ps aux | grep docker.
perms for ls -la $(which docker):
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root docker 36823912 Apr 17 18:48 /usr/bin/docker
According to this, it should absolutely be accessible without sudo, but still chokes on all commands without sudo. I cannot just run it with sudo due to a number of production build scripts that require user space locality failing, which break when sudo is applied.
output of sudo docker info
Containers: 15
Running: 1
Paused: 0
Stopped: 14
Images: 30
Server Version: 18.04.0-ce
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Native Overlay Diff: false
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk
syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 773c489c9c1b21a6d78b5c538cd395416ec50f88
runc version: 4fc53a81fb7c994640722ac585fa9ca548971871
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
seccomp
Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.17.8-1-ARCH
Operating System: Antergos Linux
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 8
Total Memory: 31.02GiB
Name: Indibog
ID: OCC4:P3QN:B5EU:J2Y4:LZN4:WAIC:2F5V:ZQZD:NLXY:DWVE:X2LB:TLEQ
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
File Descriptors: 27
Goroutines: 39
System Time: 2018-07-20T15:04:01.745176194-04:00
EventsListeners: 0
Username: mopsyd
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: true
Insecure Registries:
192.168.40.60:5000
sandbox.cdp.local:5000
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false