Here in the rural sticks, the realities don't align. The fourth felt like a typical day in Mayberry. You see no evidence of the strife, ICE, any of it.

I'm fairly confident that's intentional. I live in a rural CA mountain area, but we are close enough that we hear what's going on. There have been small isolated instances here in our town, but no major raids that iI know of. My wife is 4th gen Mexican American, and her family back in LA is quite on edge. You don't have to go far to find someone who is missing a friend/family/neighbor/etc. Some of whom are Americans. Yet I talk to one of my best friends that's in the sticks of northern Colorado, nothing is happening up there.

My point here is that these raids are targeting blue cities/areas, and by leaving the mostly red strongholds alone, Fox et al can perpetuate that myth that everything is above board, and resistance is coming from the radical left. I'm fairly certain the administration would invite the incitation of civil unrest if only invoke martial law and the insurrection act, begin the "cleansing," and suspend elections indefinitely. The only people I've met who would like to begin shooting are the gravy seal types. No one else wants this shit.

I expect this civil war to eventually go 'hot'. I also think the left will (initially) get decimated because nobody is taking this seriously as a war.

More likely because they're ill-equipped for war. The people that are equipped are celebrating the change.