If you’re wondering how dictatorships rise and mass genocide events occur, you’re witnessing it in USA right now.
Much of it has to do with the authoritarian side moving like a high-speed bulldozer while everyone else continually underestimates the magnitude of the threat.
Dude is just standing there and they start wailing on him with everything they have. They’re dressed for war while he has on a sweatshirt but we’re supposed to believe they’re the ones who are “afraid”.