I get what you and cobysev are saying but it seems to me that restraint didn’t work out so well for Germany. We do live in a different time though, where the atrocities and violence by the government is easy to see. Everyone has a phone and access (until they end that too) to the videos. I think part of what matters is if the military would side with Trump. Which is why I wonder if quicker action is better before Trump finishes purging the military. Hitler had the support of the military at first so it made it easy for him to do many of the things he did, it was only later that the German military leaders opposed him (not all of them).
I guess what it comes down to is how many people are we willing to watch die/be maimed before something happens. I am personally not sure that even if the Dems win the midterms anything will change. They seem mostly spinless to me and far more about saying they are anti Trump than being anti Trump, again not all of them. I have been at to many protests where Dem reps will be on the mic saying things like “are we going to let him get away with this” or something similar and people are yelling and cheering. All I keep thinking is he is getting away with it and has been getting away with it and you are not really doing anything.
Mostly I guess if I am being honest I am frustrated and worried and do not see a way any of this ends well.