

They do until they don’t. Hitler came to power with the support of the brownshirts and then turned on them during the night of the long knives while shifting his rhetoric from the working class to the middle class.
But yeah, I take your point. Trump definitely doesn’t mind if his followers instigate political violence against his opponents.
Yep. Pretty smart to take the financial hit for a short time and gather free publicity for it while trying to save a declining franchise.