Predictable overreach, since it the only thing they are capable of doing, and the only thing they have ever done in every Leftist Revolution in the last 100 years.... and very very good for our side. Rational people are seeing their growing insanity for what it is in ever-increasing numbers. Liberal Portland just last week saw bystanders yelling at protestors blocking traffic, and cheering the SWAT team that took the snowflakes down within seconds.
More like the past 200 years. The Jacobins of the French Revolution ate their own too during the Reign of Terror in order to keep themselves in power. Google for 'Committee of Public Safety'.