[MrB]

What we also must recognize, and what we must let the left know as well,

is that their “government” is no longer legitimate,
and only rules over us through the threat of force.

When that threat of force is met with a “bring it”
from the people they are ruling over illegitimately.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Here’s where we lost it:

I used to say we lost control of our government when FDR and the New Deal really began instituting big government on a monumental scale.

But it the seeds of this were planted well before the New Deal. The seeds were planted when our nation transitioned from a limited government republic to a mass democracy unlimited government. Mass democracy destroyed our limited government republic. At the beginning of our republic only property owners were permitted to vote in federal elections. I now see the wisdom of that.

[Pollster1]

What we also must recognize, and what we must let the left know as well, is that their “government” is no longer legitimate, and only rules over us through the threat of force.

Legitimacy is a key issue, and you are right that it is gone.