This sort of invisible hand privatization of suppression is how tyranny works in this postmodern era. Western governments know open use of soldiers, secret police, and other such jackboots in service of the new god of 'enforced equity of outcome for all' lead to massively unpopular, all the guns pointed inward type failed Soviet state. The oligarchs of communication, both old mass media and new social ones, are the new censors. They also pull the levers of manipulation with these tools until rioters act as the state's new jackboots as needed. It's easy to notice in how the law only ever seems to swing against the defenders in these cases except in the clearest of clearly recorded mistakes. It's beginning to seem to me like the secret police will gladly be privatized too, if the true believers on the people's republic of Twitter and mask screeching Karen's everywhere are anything to go by.

I think that's why people waiting for some kind of AOC-style enemy list to be the breaking point are a bit foolish. Not that such things are fake, but that the system could already have enacted them against us mere serfs if it had any desire to do so. That barking dog useful idiot was publicly ready to quit politics three days later when she was brought to heel and realized what the system really wanted. Indeed, the ones who actually have their hands on the tiller are interested in improving and perfecting the censorship and manipulation techniques until us silly serfs either cease disagreeing with them, or they have enough converted to turn on and purge the rest without the state ever officially lifting a finger. Indeed, when the time comes, it will be made to look like the state is trying to stop the violence while its masters watch with glee.