The single most clear political lesson of the past decade is that using power, even blatantly cynically, when you have it, won't produce much of a backlash. Your fans will just wait until the "other team" does it to complain.

And that's for hyper-partisan issues! I'm not sure there's any truly influential political group that would strongly oppose this. Thinking it's just the politicians who are unaware and/or disagree with the tech-minded is a mistake. The populace is less on our side re: surveillance than we'd hope.