I remember during the Trump years how surprised both Democrats and Republicans were when they put on show-hearings grilling various top US military leadership who kept responding with statements about having read the full works of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and countless other historical figures.

Word. The scariest people in the world are fash and adjacent who have read socialist theory, understand it, and use that understanding for evil.

It won't be a communist revolution or even a rightwing military coup but will be to prevent the balkanization of the US while ensuring the liberal order and pax americana can continue in some form even if US political leadership are too propaganzied to continue running the empire.

The POTUS gets marched in to a dark room, the lights come up to reveal the Joint Chiefs and instead of a video from the Grassy Knoll it's a live feed of a predator drone circling the oval office.