THIS is the reality we are living in.
This is not just rhetoric. They are serious.
We need to recognize this for what it is and not write it off anymore as rhetoric but take it more seriously than they do.
Reminds me of the genesis of the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. At first, political differences between moderates and radicals, spilling over into violence, then thousands of French citizens being hauled to the guillotine. This went on all day long with crowds cheering the deaths of ordinary citizens.
The atmosphere here is very ugly and could easily go one way or the other.