The classics of the sociology of conflict have already noted that what we now call civil society leads to an escalation of conflict and an increase in its violence. In many common controversies, it is easy for interest groups to emerge in support of one position or the other; these groups mobilize supporters, increase emotionality, and often turn trivial conflicts of interest into intractable conflicts of moral principles.
In such a defined environment, a class conflict takes place in which one side feels so overwhelmingly superior that it has lost interest in following any rules. And there is no one who could force it to follow the rules. We are for censorship because you will never have the power to censor us. We are for disrupting our opponent’s meetings because you will never have the power to disrupt our meetings. We are for political trials because you will never be able to conduct political trials against us. We are for the murder of politicians because we will never be affected. But we know from history that no such situation lasts forever.
I wrote this about the Czech Republic, but it applies everywhere. The German Government supports physical attacks on opposition politicians because it feels that they cannot be affected. American Democrats want to achieve an electoral victory by imprisoning Donald Trump because they feel confident that Trump will never try to imprison their personalities.
It doesn’t get better until the forces are aligned. No laws, no constitution, no morality will help.