If I were an optimist I would say we are at the "villain confidently starts monologuing about the success of his evil plan before it is a success" phase.
I got a call from my extremely normie mom scared about the SC ruling. It is possible the crowing about blood scares a lot of ordinary folks.
I think people have underestimated how much normies like “separation of powers” and “the president is not a king”. It is our most baseline Pollyanna of tenets. It’s kind of like Roe but 250 years old.
The last time they tried a Revolution they stumbled through the Capitol and got catfished by locals and the time before that we were sending diodes to an occupied bird sanctuary.
I’m not terribly concerned