Why should anyone waste any energy being upset about tactics utilized by the enemy? After all, they are fighting for their very lives, as are we. Has anyone, at any time, been personally outraged when the enemy has taken a shot at them? No, because that's what they are supposed to do. And your/our job is to defeat them.
While 'normal' people pursued trade/professional jobs, learning their craft(s) over time, politicians never gave one moment's thought towards wasting their time learning/operating functional utility. The result are 10s of millions of people who work & play by the "rules", while the deep state players moved right on to power & control 101.
When swamp dwellers do what they do best, "normies" tend to get outraged. Here's a pro tip: don't. Remember always that they are not as smart as you. They could never design an airplane, build a house, or cure disease. They took a short-cut; their play-book is thin.
Because they aren't that bright, they keep going back to the plays that have worked before. Same old, same old: sex, and coordinate outrage. Really, it's kinda boring, and if Trump demonstrated anything, it's not that effective if countered effectively.
Never forget this is holy quest to determine if commoners can choose self-government, or whether criminals & charlatans can fool enough people to give them (legal) control over the police & military apparatus to make YOU do what they want.
A little outrage doesn’t hurt.
It serves as a reminder that they are Machiavellian players, not men of honor.
It serves to remind us that they are desperately struggling to keep control of their positions. They really are not in defense of their lives.
But, yes, we are in a cold civil war.
A big problem is sorting out the allies, traitors, renegades and factions of the opposition.
Great synopsis, but short on solutions. The biggest issue of all is conservatives have to work for a living, while liberals get to fund their protests off our tax dollars.