Yes. There are stats on how protests of a certain size always leads to change. Voting works. Protests work.
They will try to make protests unattractive. Making them illegal or violent. Either from within or from armed forces. Of they do it wrong, they generate more support. If they do it how they want, they suppress resistance and/or start a civil war that allows them to stop elections.
They might realise that a popular uprising merely twice the size of the October No Kings protest could feasibly create an actual revolution.
Yes. There are stats on how protests of a certain size always leads to change. Voting works. Protests work.
They will try to make protests unattractive. Making them illegal or violent. Either from within or from armed forces. Of they do it wrong, they generate more support. If they do it how they want, they suppress resistance and/or start a civil war that allows them to stop elections.