I think the part that annoys me about the liberal response to fascism in the US isn't that they're trying to fight it in the courts - that's a good thing. The more counter-tactics, the better.

What annoys me is that a lot of liberals are *only* fighting it in the courts. It's not a part of a multi-pronged strategy, there's no calls for diverse (including direct) action from politicians, and there's no real cross-pollination between legal and direct action that I can see.

The whole thing overwhelmingly stinks of "we're going to hope for the best and let the legal system deal with it, so that we can continue pretending that we leave in a healthy democracy", ie. the "head in the sand" approach.

When what they *should* be doing is take every opportunity they can, direct action or otherwise, fire off all of them at once, and keep the different camps in contact to coordinate.