@WashedOutGundamPilot @NotImportant That implies that the regime is stronger than it is, in multiple senses of the word. If they had the balls to do that in the face of serious opposition, they'd have done it in 2016. Further, they've still got hundreds of thousands of Trump guys in DC, and the trigger-pullers might go with Trump (at which point it's positively, definitely over for whoever ordered them to break it up, whereas if they just laugh it off and memory hole the whole thing, they get another chance in 2024, and can probably get Trump to pick some DeSantis/Kemp style person as a successor, or at least think they can).

The only real way they pull through is if Trump is out of the picture, and the crowd just sort of disperses on its own. The regime can't use hard power at any meaningful scale - it's outgunned.