Autocrats Simulate War With Each Other

Correct, in spades. Believers in democracy have always faced those who favor the benefits of autocracy, with the support of autocractic military and police, and, not least legislators and lawyers and other professions regulated by themselves (lawyers and judges) or by the state. Voting by the populace was intended to give final say to to the citizenry but that openness was gradually supplanted by political parties themselves autocractic modeled after the legacy of top down rulers ostensibly blessed by deity or deities with aboriginal autocracy headed by the Top Dog with absolute power. This struggle between the populace and centralized power periodically erupts into revolution but not often, instead coups prevail as autocrats wage internecine combat with one another. The US may be seen as one revolution that succeeded where so many others failed, but then set up an authoritarian government modeled on predecessors, the makers seemingly unable to originate a wholly democratic governance due to fear of rabble-rousers who have toppled the leaders and their minions. So at this time the topmost offices, POTUS and SCOTUS and Congress are waging political war with demands that law follow their own interests at the expense of the citizenry. Could this portend a new American Revolution, daresay that's a long shot so long as the top officeholders are backed by the military and police, and, yep, the lawyers, especially those who have violated their oaths of service, and journalists.