Not the case if the US joins the autocracies.
Isn't Trump busy replacing US Army leadership with those loyal to him? Why would Army and ICE be on opposite sides?
Seems MAGA just have to continue the present course and apply just enough pressure to the election system to keep "winning" half-credibly and autocracy is there in not too many years.
I mean they are already past pardoning those attacking congress for not accepting the election result.
It is just a gradual process which is well underway, at what point would California and Washington suddenly prop up a militia?
Plenty of precedents for Autocrats to assume power in legit democracies and seem to flick it handily enough.
Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, Erdogan, Orban etc.
No battles or violence, just democracies that become autocracies through election.