because the public ire, on both sides, is focused now on the political parties, which people have begun to view as proxies for the unelected portion of the federal government.
Yes. And I see this as happening because people have basically burnt out on fighting each other. No one, except controlled elements are showing up. The left only shows up to get paid. The right only shows up to fight in their own backyards or when whipped up by their guys on the right. But the words out now, and the trump effect is played out, and the FBI is a smothering blanket on any rightwing enthusiasm anyway. The right will fight when things get real enough, but not on the governments timing, not when the government wants them to or needs them to for their nightly-news federal propaganda narrative. No one in any significant number is going to walk into a dumb trap planted by some diversity hire thinly veiled mossad working or ADL 'fellow travelers' working for the FBI as literal spies and what amount to political police.
The left can't lean on them without provoking the public even further, so they should lean on local and state police instead. The problem is local and state police and police unions, stated support for MAGA/the right, and so they can't be counted as a reliable element in the federal government et al's plots, and reliability is important because if they're not carrying their weight, or sentiment joins the public then the left loses the last force-based institution supporting it besides the FBI. And because the police unions have to be removed due to the cost, and because it interferes with the militarization of street communism or "volunteer neighborhood patrols", the federal government is now backed into a corner: and that corner is DC, and the proof of it is the razor wire and troops.
They've basically surrounded themselves with their enemies, not realizing the age old wisdom "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" only works if you have more friends than enemies to begin with.
You know what they say: you can piss off some of the people all of the time, and piss off all of the people some of the time, but you can't piss off all of the people all of the time. Not if you want to survive anyway.
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