There’s dissent and then there’s actively working to make sure liberal democracy devolves into far-right fascism. In a functional democracy, it doesn’t matter how many hole-drillers there are. Hell, you can be a hole-driller and it wouldn’t make any difference because you will always be outnumbered by the people who are bailing. What we have currently are hole-drillers who are sabotaging the buckets to make sure the bailers can’t get enough water out of the boat, as well as drilling holes.