“Political persecution and political violence is being normalized, anticipated, and even yearned for. We are being softened up for more violent scenarios.”
If you want to see where all this may well end just read or see a good movie of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. Caesar’s assassination set off a series of two civil wars that ended in the Roman Republic being converted to the Roman Empire. Also, all of Caesar’s assassins were ultimately killed or died of suicide during the wars
Could lead to an American Pinochet.