When we are urged to not comply or obey or surrender in advance, this is why. They can gather a very small pack of killers. These are dangerous motherfuckers, but they are few. They use terrorism because they don't have the numbers to seize things by force. TFG tried his intimidation schtick at MSG, all pageantry & threats of violence if we don't bend the knee to him, but that, too, is dwarfed by the Ellipse Closing Arguments.
We are watching, event by event, our own strength made flesh.