It's not optics. It's fear, comfortability and an unwillingness to live through tough times while not realizing that tough times are coming for you anyway so keeping your head down and mouth shut won't matter very soon. There's a reason Twitter and Facebook don't actually remove your accounts even though you're banned from using it, it's a list (likely saved to servers) and evidence of wrongthink to be used against you for the eventual online struggle sessions and real life show trials. When they actually pack the courts, extend a presidency term limit or remove it and fully purge the military of anyone who might turn traitor, then Mr. Toads Wild ride really begins. Things need to happen before all that, like fully outlawing voter id and culling states rights to self govern while getting rid of any real politicians in opposition, and I'm highly doubtful it'll be Super Cop and the Dementia Kid who are the ones who will complete it....probably 3 more presidencies to pull it off completely, with some help from silicon valley and the MSM for social correction and propaganda. And no another Trump isn't going to happen, they've made sure of that, so it's neocons and shitlibs from here on out at a federal level.