They could even buy some cheap US surplus weapons through Agents, which could lead to accusations of greedy American businessmen playing both sides to increase their profits, 'gorging on the blood of our heroes'.
It could happen during the Revolutionary war, US society is more comparable to post-Soviet Russia, where the crimelords and their henchmen became the authorities and law enforcement, respectively.
Other parties are not needed in the dictatorship of the proletariat. Democracy is a sham to fool the masses to beliebe that they have a hand in the decisions of the state, they don't. Politicians are just tools for the capitalist class, sinecures for those offspring of the oligarchs too stupid...
It was more about the return of colonial administration, especially law enforcement. During the century of neglect before, much of the local government had slipped into the hands of smugglers, land speculants and other crooks and local crimelords. Any attempt by London to tighten their control...