It's legitimate. At the same time when you have to elevate people from the core of your own population to the level of foreign based jihadists - it says a lot about how fucked up your country is.

Looking at myself I'm about as American establishment as it gets in pedigree. No doubt more than most FBI agent. Old stock with Puritans in my family tree. And even have family that are law enforcement. Not to mention military officers and members of the intelligence community. And I think America is so fucked up that I feel imnediately hitting the open road to avoid city life if I so much as want to go outside.

And frankly, the rot is so commonplace at street level now that I suspect even a lot of the security forces are having second thoughts about protecting it. Are middle class conservative cops going to be enthusiastic about defending a Buttplug administration? This whole society is a recipe for alienation and discord.