I find this to be a much more compelling commentary and concern than the one I replied to. If what you mention does happen, it will be legitimately frightening.

At least when authoritarianism hit my home country (Venezuela), we could leave.

If we go back to the Kent State shooting, Gallup found that 58% blamed the students and 11% blamed the National Guard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Aftermath...

I don't see it as a crazy idea that shooting some protestors would be popular.

I've told friends that I have a sinking feeling a Tiananmen Square-like event might happen soon in the US. I predict that there will be people online arguing the semantics of what constitutes a "massacre" or a "tragedy."

I hope we never get to that.

Did you see the videos of police SUVs driving through the people? The tank in Tiananmen Square actually stopped.

That was just one tank though. You can't really compare what happened in Tiananmen Square to what's happened in the US.

Well, yeah. Fascism tends to be popular, even though it’s really bad and needs to be resisted.