If what they are doing is really "their best" then they are truly fucked.

And, frustratingly, they'll take the rest of us down with them.

We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can

No you are not. You're eating fried chicken and attending sports events. The Indy 500 has now turned into the Nuremberg rally.

No one even questions why tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are pissed away on car sponsorship while toilets don't even work in theatre of war.

Many USians kept posting on Reddit that Russians should've protested harder to remove Putin from power and prevent the war in Ukraine. So I guess they imagine that it's how authoritarianism is solved.