I don’t even know how private security (I presume that’s what she hires) can work against state security.

I guess the simple, but stupid answer is that it can't until it can. This is fundamentally about the state's capacity to muster resources & manpower to it's own defense vs. that of internal opposition & coalitions. IDK when, precisely, the inflection point on that would happen; but I don't think it's strictly possible for the US to ignore it's own Real Economy indefinitely out to that point.

It's one thing to never win wars you never actually intended to win (but are able to use to sell beaucoup-bucks worth of hardware) 10,000 miles away. It's another to not actually be able to establish & hold meaningful ground in your own back yard.

I suppose it all comes down to if/when it comes time for Capital's Greatest Soldiers to themselves be consumed by insatiable vortex of financialization. Of course they would fight back against that, but... I suppose that's when the question of who really is in control would get answered, and also it would more than likely create openings...

That’s how it goes for people on the left living in a fascist state.

I don't know for absolutely sure right now, but IDK that we're going to actually get the Militant Christo-Fascist State (or I suppose I should say not one of either the National Christian "Socialist" / "National Christian" Capitalist, variety). At least; not in the immediate term. Not in the next 4-8 years, I think...

The political economy they support; that they require to fulfill their ambitions of "National Renewal", and "vengance" against perceived internal & external slights; is anathema to the United State's real interests as the World Financial Capital & it's dominant class. They also require a degree of popular mobilization that is, again, completely unacceptable to the real powers in the US. This is why we got Biden & I think it's going to be why we may not actually get a DeSantis or Trump/Neo-Trump in the future.