We're in the Vichy France stage c. 1941, except occupiers have political control and not military control.
Some just want to go along to get along, like French girls who went out with German soldiers, because that was just "normal". For such people, "normal" has to become so unbearable that it cracks the normalcy bias cognitive lock.
Political occupiers/collaborators now have foreign bodies pouring into the country, are funding them, giving them restitution (as Coumo in NY) and soon, as I see it, will be given them rents in major cities, which have seen a productive class exodus.
Further, the occupiers want to take away the American constitutional right to self-defense via firearms, so the resisitance can't defend themselves when the foreigners burn the cities.
My take is that the US loyalist military can't defend in the cities because it will weaken perimeter or long range defense, and I think the occupiers are holding a mass casualty event in CONUS over the heads of the loyalist military to deter major kinetic action against the occuppiers in their home areas.
I agree with you that the US resistance is wide and deep. albeit relatively quiet, thus far, as the free French in 1941, when D-Day was 3 years away.
I think the occupiers/collaborators were expecting a more visible pushback and are trying to provoke a loyalist military/public resistance outcry. That, however, is a knife edge gamble, because if it jolts the normies out of their normalcy bias, it will backfire.
Battlefield has been prepared over the last 5 years with the unmasking of an MSM complicit with the occupiers/collaborators and twith he challenges to question any MSM or government agency narrative. Rear and flank occupier/collaborator bridges have been blown up, and they are being forced to march to total war.