The right benefits from demobilization because apathy aids defending property.

Evidence

One can therefore conclude, ambivalently, that even if Trump and other nationalists are indeed supported by a robust associative network, this does not necessarily alter the broader context of demobilization in which they have operated, at least so far. That may in fact be an advantage from their perspective. The right has historically been content to defend existing property relations. Apathy and resignation are its greatest assets, not militancy. It thus remains unclear whether social capital is actually growing on the right or whether it is simply eroding more slowly. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 159

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘Apathy and resignation are its greatest assets, not militancy’ — a genuinely counterintuitive, generalizable insight about defensive power.
• SEED: This inverts common political analysis — that demobilization is always bad for a force; here it’s good — usable as an essay on defensive politics.
• XREF: connects to: Political apathy can be sanctioned as the system’s healthy basis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2341