“I think the Leftists are smart enough to evolve with the changing landscape (think Stalin).”
This assumption, I believe, is where many people misjudge the American leftist. The typical American leftist has been emasculated by the feminist movement. The typical American, leftist male has been brainwashed to hate guns, despise competition and find combat repulsive. Trying to equate the American leftist with a Stalinist revolutionary or a European fascist who grew up in a martial culture is far off the mark.
It’s simply impossible, IMO, for an American leftist to evolve into a tough Stalinist willing to fight in the street for nebulous beliefs after your schwantz has been ripped out.
The American leftist male is not, in the martial sense, a Nazi or communist street fighter. They are unmitigated, jellyfish wimps.
As for not being martial, there are always people who will fight on their behalf, especially if they are rewarded. In this country, the people wielding power have always been the political class.
That being said, I hope you are right though. Time will tell.....