Spot on, they will tell you ‘peacefully’ and ‘with civility’ is the only way to acceptably oppose what are entirely unacceptable circumstances. They (both the fascists and their enablers, and paid opposition) need us to respond to unabashed barbarity and inhumanity meekly because they know the other way actually works. People need to read about how rights were won literally any time in human history, and I assure you it wasn’t quietly.

It’s unsettling that this is the goal, clearly. It won’t matter what the pretext once the violence starts, they will use it to justify escalation and further overreach, and they won’t acknowledge hypocrisy or try to justify it at that point, they’ll just do what they always planned.