They believe if they ignore it it will go away, but all they have done is made it much worse.
Had this been confronted from the very beginning when emotions weren't so ratcheted up it would have been relatively painless compared to what's going to happen now.
Weather Underground playbook-Find an incident a spark to ignite the flame, ratchet it up to a raging inferno.
These idiots fell right into the trap.
Anyone who thinks that tyranny cannot happen here is a fool.