The orange regime kinda tried to do that in the first stint, and I would not be super shocked if they tried and actually did something like that nowadays. But it would also probably trigger widespread riots, if not outright rebellion in a lot of places.
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Sure, they have a lot of medal of honours to give out these brave patriots
risk? risk what? there is evidently no consequence to any of the shit they pull. when you add the idea that the fucks in power are completely divorced from everyday people shit, they got even less of concept of risk vs reward. who's gonna rebel? who's gonna rise up?
you got "federal" goons invading states, kidnapping and killing people, commandeering the state's military, i.e. the national guard and the head of state is like "here's a tweetdunk".
garland's Civil War (2024) had an overly optimistic premise - that some people will have enough at some point.
Do they send in the tanks?
They don't need to. The situation is so fundamentally different.
(Not saying that they wouldn't, because lunatics everywhere)
It's honestly hard to say.
Doing it today? Probably no. Communication isn't nearly as censored as it was in 1989 China.
However there's 2 possible ways I could see a "yes".
- If the fascists are able to remain in power long enough too reach that level of censorship.
- If they're simply just that god damn stupid, which I've seen little to no evidence to suggest they aren't that stupid.
Probably. Worked out "great" for The Chinese Empire.