assuming Americans ever stir themselves from their apathy and learned helplessness.

Americans respect the rule of law, and they’d much rather deal with this lawfully. MAGA sees the citizens’ reluctance to shift to violence as a weakness to exploit, counting on that never happening.

Eventually, their arrogance will go too far, and the walls of civility that has protected them up to that point will crumble, and they will be surprised to find themselves surrounded with a population seething with righteous indignation. Push the people hard enough to abandon their principles, and entire bloodlines will be ended, and fortunes confiscated.