I was making that point in the context of the Trump Cinematic Universe, which includes both these committed true-believers as well as the clueless cheerleaders

I was making that point in the context of the Trump Cinematic Universe, which includes both these committed true-believers as well as the clueless cheerleaders still simping along at home. The narrative there is/was that since Trump won the election, anything he decrees has a mandate from "the people" (cue Bane voice). So when the useful idiots were acting, they saw the law as irrelevant - everything they were doing was for the cause and thus they'd be protected (naive). But obviously Trump's directly-harmful America-last policies are eventually going to be felt by a lot of the grassroots cheerleaders who think he's some kind of savior. At which point to try and maintain their support, it's going to become politically important to write off the harmful results by attributing them to some scapegoats. And the clear scapegoats for many things are Musk and his merry band of governmental arsonists.