I have come to believe there power is slipping away. They need a major win badly
The '60s and '70s radicals who are the leaders of their "movement" and who have been infecting the government with their "second childhood" over the past decade or so, are retiring or dying off.
The current generation just doesn't have their zeal. If you held an anti-Keystone rally on the day of issue of the new "Grand Theft Auto," you'd probably have a pretty sparse crowd of protesters.