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Stochastic terrorism and signalling his followers should no longer 'stand back and stand by'. How does he get away with this? Good lord.
Why shouldn't he get away with it? Americans stay at home and write stuff on social media while waiting for someone else to actually do something about it. Seems easy to get away with anything if that's the resistance.
Luigi is American. Nathan Mahoney is American. The only people making moves are American. Clearly you are a troll who has to try harder.
He won the popular vote. 75+ million fascists voted for him. This is what they want.
Who's going to hold him accountable? These things are true:
If an individual or small group tries, they'll be arrested or killed by authorities.
A large enough group of people acting together could do it, but it has to be large enough, or see #1.
To build a large enough group requires getting the word out, and getting the word out means that the authorities will hear about it. See #1.
If the word goes out by anonymous, untraceable communication channels, then each person has to trust people they haven't met and don't know to act in concert with the plan. If the others fail to act, see #1.
I just realized that I've re-created the need for resistance networks (a web of trust in which each person only knows and trusts a small number of others each) from first principles. But even those require people willing to risk getting arrested or killed, because sometimes the authorities bust resistance cells. Basically, this is how all dictators hold on to power against overwhelming discontent in the populace: Nobody can get together in large enough numbers to do anything about it, and individually, going along with the regime is slightly (or a lot) better than not.
Dictators fall when enough of the population decides that the status quo is worse than defying the dictator. The United States is nowhere near that stage yet.