This is a very salient point. Because this is what the good Americans are up against. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If they realize what is really going on now and try and rise up against it they have been shown that they will be shot down like vermin and the administration will blatantly lie to keep it's supporters on side.
At the same time I believe this is exactly what the government is trying to do so that they can declare marshal law or a state of emergency whereby all elections will be cancelled so Trump stays in power. I'm not exactly sure of the legalities of this but the legalities don't seem to matter too much in America at the moment.
I watched a video of Steve Bannon talking along these lines when Trump got in a second term. Another thing he talked about was implementing a strategy called "move fast and break things" whereby they do and say so much




so quickly that the people are lurching from one loss of freedom or catastrophe to the next unable to focus their energy on fighting anything effectively.
And if the good people of America decide to lay down and accept it because they're too exhausted then the govt has also achieved it's aim of an authoritarian dictatorship, not unlike Nazi Germany.
JMO MOO