Just feed the masses chaos, confusion, lies woven with an occasional half truth, and an endless parade of "outrages" that overlap each other such that none are ever resolved before the next one blows. Meanwhile the societal wealth extraction bubble lurches toward the next economic meltdown. Americans are a colonized people who accept it via cooperation, and participation, frothy-mouthed and rabidly.
No authoritarian power structure has ever welcomed facing a clear coherent human being, much less a gathering of them. An anxious, fearful incoherent population is easy to subjugate.
I love the word you have used in the past 'Partisanshitheads'. Sums it up pretty well.