This isn’t the only “teachable moment” we’ve been provided and it won’t be the last. There are plenty of people closer to home than this website who will slavishly support any action as long as there is a “law” written down somewhere. Get most cops in an unguarded moment and they will say they would load Anne Frank onto a railcar if there is a law and they are ordered to enforce it. Lots of people who aren’t cops who would go along with that, too.
Used to work with a guy who had a doctorate in German History. Said he liked to visit any pub in Germany, and buy drinks for 1 or more of the locals. As they drank, their opinions of Hitler changed from “He’s a monster who should never have been in power” to “But, you know, he did do some good things” to “By G—, we need a man like Hitler again!” And this while looking at him in a wheelchair. (Hitler also exterminated the handicapped or deformed.)