IMHO, deep down a lot of Leftists know the crap they pull is wrong. But they gamble that they won't suffer the consequence.
A reckoning for their deeds is what I believe they fear the most.
Reckoning!
Apt and accurate.
If Trump should miraculously win the presidency again there will be mass insubordination and out right rebellion by the beuacracy, they will JFK him. Communists do not give up power without being forced.