ANNNNDD......who’s going to do the confiscating?
Antifa? They’d be massacred. Who likes or respects a black face mask? No attempt to invest them with confiscatory powers will succeed.
If police departments were to hire contractor door kickers, the latter would be seen as mercenaries & nothing more. Righteous targets.
Using Antifa to round up citizens? When the state hires known criminals to enforce its will, its moral authority has already collapsed and there’s nothing to lose by opening fire.
The state wants total power. Will it risk anarchy to achieve it?
Those who warn of `civil war’ when the door kickers arrive are really predicting the outbreak of anarchy & chaos.
Won’t be any Lee vs Grant stuff this time.
Oh, the “other side” has every confidence they can carry this out. They have lived in their echo chamber for so long, they have almost whooped themselves into a victory run, as there shall be no resistance, and they can do what they want.
Also, they are not susceptible to either logic or reality.
You’re right. Their foot soldiers will be MASSACRED. They will never know what hit them.