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This is the problem the Trump administration is going to have.
It's been made clear to us that many members of our armed forces have betrayed their oaths. We know from history that this is typical. Many people see an authoritarian government rising and choose to side with them because they think they'll win due to their tough guy theatrics.
But America is too mixed at this point.
This isn't the Civil War where the sides were generally geographically separated between north and south. Liberals and conservatives are all mixed in across the country. When it comes down to the wire, you aren't going to convince many service members to bomb, shoot, murder in a region where their own family and friends live.
Even if he had every last member of the military ready to do it, citizens still vastly outnumber them. But he won't. The number of actual diehard MAGAts ready to actually start randomly murdering Americans en masse in all the mixed areas of our nation is not remotely enough to stop us if he decides to actually pop this off.
If they're smart they'll dial back and turn up the heat slower so they can implement their authoritarian state slow enough that the average person doesn't notice until too late. Right now they're escalating too quickly. Getting too many people's attention. Probably because Trump knows he doesn't have much time left. And because they're stupid.