History suggests that a unified and ruthless armed force can subjugate a hostile population with approximately 1:100 ratio of fighters to civilians. It has been done before.
If the Nomenklatura currently running this country can maintain control of the Military and the armed Federal Agency forces, they might just be able to control 150 million people.
But that is a very big **if**. And it would not be enough to be sustainable for very long
I would count on TBPB to overestimate their chances and double-down on stupid.
Only if those civilians are unarmed. Name one instance where an armed population was overwhelmed by a military force so much smaller than itself. It has never been done.
Consider the recent example of Christopher Dorner in California, and the disruption he caused.
Now consider it again if he’d just concentrated on shooting cops and kept his mouth shut, skipping the manifesto.
15+ million people in an uproar ... from one guy.