Just a reminder that the Nazi party regularly said shit like this leading up to the Holocaust. The idea was to make it seem like, to the public, that they have been regularly giving warnings to and negotiating with Jewish people about their need to relocate out of Germany and give up their property, and that the refusal to cooperate was going to force Germany to use violence.

It was all propaganda. The intent from the beginning was to commit violence.

All of the people Republicans are mad out right now - queer people, educators, health care professionals, and social workers to name a few - are all being given “warnings”, with increasingly violent rhetoric attach, priming their base to eventually resort to violence when those targets “refuse to cooperate”. Really what they mean is “Never do anything that disagrees with our far right agenda, or we will murder you”.

The Fascists want a civil war. In their fantasy it plays out like The Purge where the big strong patriots destroy all the scary black bloc antifa terrorists and usher in a new era. The reality is that it would just result in a domestic crisis that on top of traumatizing the general public, would destabilize the country enough to permanently destroy our place in the world as a superpower.