The police are on the side of the people who control their paychecks and pensions. If these people tell the police to stand down while Leftists beat the crap out of us, then they will stand down. They HAVE stood down. They might like us, but for most of them, not enough to lose their jobs over it.
The police are on the side of the people who control their paychecks and pensions.
As others have mentioned, these are small groups. How do they grow? There is no majority support for their actions, at least not where it counts. Is California going to secede? This sort of tactic has succeeded in the past by having a supportive media that controls the narrative.
They do not have that overwhelming support in the media anymore. Yes, they have the Establishment media (which is being discredited even further) and more partisan media on the net.
I do not think they have enough to foster a mass movement, and they do not have the troops to do it on their own.
Bank robberies, identity theft, some property destruction, a few assassinations. Sure, could happen. But you do not make a revolution or a Civil war out of that.
We had far worse in the 70’s, with a more supportive media on their side (almost no conservative media), and they got nowhere with the violence. It was the media that got the Left elected and radicalized, not the violence.