I think the truly shocking aspect to them is the lack of obedience.

My governor had mandatory lockdowns in place for months, but (as I suggested when I advocate Civil Disobedience) people just didn't listen. A full on travel ban past 11:00 PM, and I drove home at midnight watching commercial trucks driving down the interstate.

There's a quiet terror of the establishment saying things, and then nothing happening. That is the true, and most dangerous, revolution. Power is illusory, and when you point a gun at someone and tell them to do something, and they ignore you and walk away, you really don't have any additional options.

They are so used to getting what they want, and there are many die-hard loyalists, but there seems to be an ever-growing silent revolution of people simply rejecting their statements and de-legitimizing them. Unlike Trump and open dissenters, there's nothing to even fight against.

What the 1/6 viking raiders were, as far as anyone can tell, were all the people in blue states that were so outraged about their treatment they took matters into their own hands. The red states didn't show up.

From my counter-insurgency perspective, that should be ringing alarm bells. All of 1/6 was blowback, and you have absolutely no control over the red-states to receive blowback from. Your position is one of incredible weakness and vulnerability... which is also why they are over-reacting.