The fact that law enforcement often serves as the only adequately funded state institution in large parts of the country makes this form of political entryism especially worrying. Echoing through the hollowness of popular democratic institutions, the paranoia of Posse Comitatus advocates appeals to
Sovereign Citizens think the law doesn't apply to them due to esoteric readings of the Constitution. As Isaac Suárez-Nugent explains, their legal theory has deep roots in a little-known movement (Posse Comitatus) influencing the far right to this day.