If they play their cards too quickly, they have less support. If they can gradually ramp up fear of resistance, they have a better chance of succeeding. Too slow, they get voted out. Too fast, they might get too much resistance from people, including those in uniform.
The fact that they are doing school raids the day after murdering someone means they are ramping up pretty quick. The fact that nobody protesting has been killed means they are not ramping up as quickly as some expected.
Yes. There are stats on how protests of a certain size always leads to change. Voting works. Protests work.
They will try to make protests unattractive. Making them illegal or violent. Either from within or from armed forces. Of they do it wrong, they generate more support. If they do it how they want, they suppress resistance and/or start a civil war that allows them to stop elections.
If they play their cards too quickly, they have less support. If they can gradually ramp up fear of resistance, they have a better chance of succeeding. Too slow, they get voted out. Too fast, they might get too much resistance from people, including those in uniform.
The fact that they are doing school raids the day after murdering someone means they are ramping up pretty quick. The fact that nobody protesting has been killed means they are not ramping up as quickly as some expected.
They might realise that a popular uprising merely twice the size of the October No Kings protest could feasibly create an actual revolution.
Yes. There are stats on how protests of a certain size always leads to change. Voting works. Protests work.
They will try to make protests unattractive. Making them illegal or violent. Either from within or from armed forces. Of they do it wrong, they generate more support. If they do it how they want, they suppress resistance and/or start a civil war that allows them to stop elections.