maybe this time will be different. they're certainly in a position where they could try throwing the law completely out the window and just do mass arrest against everyone who is mean to them online (which is what this is all about anyway) but from where I'm standing it's impossible to tell

the mainstream media and most of the Democratic party are gutless cowards too terrified of guns to stand up to the far right. So they never face any real push-back. but it does feel like the constant rhetorical escalations are turning into a kind of white noise