This is the underlying assumption of “liberalism” in general - that the masses are not smart enough to make their own decisions for themselves, and that they elite have the right and the duty, yes, the DUTY, to make our decisions for us.
And when the masses resist, the elite find that resistance more of a threat to the nation than anything else, so it must be outlawed, prosecuted and crushed.
Should the resistance turn violent, the elite resort to greater violence......all simply to impose their ideas onto others who do not share their view of the world.
It’s so ironic. Classic liberalism proclaimed freedom for the people in response to the concept that it was the biologic, hereditary monarchy who knew what was best for the people. Now, modern day liberalism claims the intellectual, monarchist elite knows best.