Why not Dearborn? Why isn't it in flames?

The most positive spin on my understanding is that somebody is holding the leash on the Sunni and Shia Muslims in Michigan. That proves it can be done. It also implies that the protests are the product of collusion and are not totally organic in their origins.

If you are extremely generous and naive, that can be seen as good news. 

Minnesota

Walz and Frey have no political future. Neither will ever win a fair, state-wide election. They have nothing to lose by betting every chip. 

California

Gavin Newsom has political ambition. If national news showed him unable to manage his own state, his chances of getting elected to POTUS or US Senator go in the toilet.

That doesn't necessarily mean that chaos isn't happening. It is possible/likely that the left-leaning media is leaving that footage on the cutting room floor. But the reality of citizen journalists forces him to keep a lid on things.

Michigan

Gretchen Whitmer probably has POTUS or VPOTUS aspirations. Dana Nestle (the Attorney General of Michigan) and Jocelyn Benson (S-o-S) are term-limiting out. Benson already announced that she is running for Governor.

Rashida Tliab is probably delusional enough to believe that she could win a state-wide election.

So they are all constrained the same way that Gavin Newsom in California is.

What nobody dares talk about is that Dearborn is a tinderbox of Shia (Iranian oriented Muslims) and Sunni (the rest of the world) tensions.

The Sunni contend that there are 73 branches of Islam and that the Quran tells them that there will be 72 false prophets and only one true torch of Islam. That "one true torch of Islam", according to the Sunni, are the Sunni (go figure). The followers of the 72 false prophets will spend eternity serving the Sunni in paradise.

The Shia, on the other hand, claim that the Sunni are following false prophets and that Shia are the chosen sect.

Shia is a minority in the world of Islam at about 25%. What makes it work is that for the most part, the two major sects self-segregated. Shia mostly in Iran, eastern Iraq and bits and drabs of the former Soviet 'stans.

Nearly everybody else are Sunni. 

Except for in Dearborn, Michigan. The largest mosque in Dearborn is a Shia mosque. Mosques of all flavors are sprinkled through the city like chocolate chips in a cookie.

Kudos to Whitmer and team

I don't give Whitmer and her team much appreciation, but in this case she is playing a bad hand as well as it can be played.

Am I exaggerating the instability

Let's play a mental exercise. Suppose you run a department in a spy agency somewhere. It can be Moscow, Kiev, Berlin, London, Paris, India, China, Langley, Tel Aviv. You have thousands of detailed plans sitting on shelves. Pre-canned solutions to  implement policies that your masters might desire forwarded.

Conceivably, the south side of Detroit and the first-ring suburbs would go up in flames if two hundred faux Grindr (a gay dating app) requests went from Sunni men to Shia men and from Shia men to Sunni. Send another two hundred AI generated transsexual "asks" in the same way. Send explicit video. Have some of the faux requests come from public figures. Have the smartphones ding after they broke a geo-fence and are in their mosque.

The three least experienced guys in the spy-agency IT department could do it between lunch and 3:30 p.m. the same day.

A slaughter would likely follow. 

There is precedent. Freshmen at college committed suicide over such shenanigans. It could be done from as far away as New Delhi or Hanoi or Sao Paulo.