That’s how they’d love everyone to think. Violent response gives pretext to drive the jackboot in. If you try to go to pick a fight on a force with a monopoly on violence, you’ll get yourself killed and embolden them.

Successful overthrows happen when elites break ranks, when organised alternatives exist, when military, police and bureaucracy take another option.

Organise peaceful protest, appeal to those in power rather than threatening them, and make the alternative more attractive than the status quo.

Americans.