Maybe, but history is full of populations that were pretty docile… Until they weren’t.

I’ve personally seen how patience and complacency in a supremely calm individual can evaporate when things are tight. People who are always careful and taking care of the long term abandoning all of that if they feel desperate in a situation.

If the ballot box doesn’t work as promised by the existing social contract, that will be the last straw for some people. Particularly if asshats like Stephen Miller keep up the violent rhetoric about exactly how terrible they want to be to any dissenters. That’s a lot of fear, rage, and impotence for folks to get hit with, and it has a much higher risk of bubbling over than you would imagine.

I’ll confess to thinking I’m personally unlikely to risk things, but other people have surprised me