My point isn't quite the same one you're responding to.

I'm saying that what we're seeing now is not what they're doing "anyway." Trump stretches his delusional reality as far as he can, but he cannot currently stretch it to the point he needs to actually institute martial law. We have to climb that ladder with him, and he's trying to tempt us as much as possible to do it. Don't take the bait.

That's not how it will play out, unfortunately. A sustained violent widespread resistance may work, as an insurgency to a now-or-soon-to-be established fascist regime.

But that isn't likely in the US. More likely you have pockets of violence that will be politicized for many times the harm compared to the benefit. And we've already seen our judiciary is spineless, and even the historically neutral judges will err on the side of not upsetting the right.