This is the same manifestation of malignant psychotic hysteria that led to 918 people voluntarily killing themselves at Jonestown Guyana in 1978, except this time in the high-minded “progressive” confines of New York City, Washington D.C. and Hollyweird. It’s a collective ideological madness that automatically escalates itself to the point of self-destruction. IMHO, it can’t happen soon enough.
OH; wait; you typed escalates.