Yeah, this was my thought.
There is a reason that Asymmetric tactics have to be used in an insurgency. If you want to follow the rules and start a revolution, you are going to get slaughtered. The Reichstag fire for instance. Nobody gives a fuck if a communist did it, or the Nazi's framed him. the result was going to be the same regardless. Without that level of ruthlessness, we aren't going to make any progress.
What I am hearing in Andrew's article is in this direction. The idea is to start pushing things to a point that people are forced to fight. Showing the country that real resistance cant be made through following the rules, we force more people to consider the alternatives, which likely will also include running into crowds of people in cars, or bombing coffee shops, like the Irish did to get independence. This is the reality of where we are. Either we go balls deep, or we take the long march through the institutions like the left has.
To be clear, I advocate the latter over the former.