And public protests can just be ignored. Tell me, if you had absolute control of the government and military and people didn’t like what you did and asked you to stop nicely with signs and kumbaya circles, would you stop?

I’m tired of people so resistant to fighting back they’d rather just get walked on.

I'm tired of people so convinced they're right that they're ready to shoot all the people who disagree with them.

There's a good reason we set things up so that no one individual has absolute control. We've tried that. It's not great.

The people who disagree with me have the full government and might of the US military and infinite money and resources. These aren’t equivalent things.