Everyone should have figured this out 45 years ago when the FBI recorded Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground discussing how many Americans they were going to have to send to re-education camps and execute.
Amen, brother. Denial is a wide river that knows no bounds.
As you likely know, though, there are major costs involved when it does wane.
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin, they aren't the type to calm down. If they ever get to the point they have to decide if their direct actions will cause them greater discomfort than their enemies they get some other fool to throw the rock or set a fire or turn over the car.
But the hatred and need to destroy never goes away