An Army of 700,000 is not going to subdue a united population of 300,000,000.
Since roughly half of that 300M is on the "other side," and a very large percentage, possibly a majority, of those "on our side" will go along to get along, the force comparison changes pretty dramatically.
“United”
Exactly. Clearly half this nation are liberals and at least half of the so-called conservatives would do as their “authorities” ask. Toss in a military beholden to liberals ways of homos and they believe they have the upper hand.