Apt

 This Branco cartoon seems pretty apt...

I don't blame the establishment left for the dynamics that are no occurring. I think their best historical parallel is the British just prior to the war of independence. As a Canadian raised in the East coast where a lot of loyalists fled, I have a fair bit of sympathy for their position. Both are progressive. Both were trying to resist nationalistic sentiments in favour of a broadened out group morality.

But, the more they authoritarianize the more the dynamics spiral into revolutionary territory. For instance, I seem to remember something about no political test for federal employees.....

...  oh well.

Here's the article where Biden was requesting an political purge of troops working the inauguration.  

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/insane-request-from-biden-team/

The request is obviously very rational. They may be under a moral hysteria (carried over from Orange-man bad days), but I think they're starting to come to a better sense of the revolutionary fervor in the air.  But, I think they're mistaking whacko terrorist reactions for fundamental revolutionary dynamics. Thus they're doing things to combat the former which only exasperates the latter.