The national socialists in Germany demonizing the Jews was always pitched as “self-defense” of the German people.
The socialists in the Soviet Union demonizing Kulaks was pitched as “self-defense” of the common people, or proletariat.
Chinese socialist red guards cleansing the country of opposition to the Cultural Revolution was no different.
Leftist lunatics seeking to impose their totalitarian regime on a society always speak in these terms.

Kristallnacht in Berkeley. Courtesy of the Soros SonnerKommandos.
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Seems to me that's a threat at the very top of her page...to the President of the U.S.A.
very GOOD. I’m going to use your stuff, OK.