On a general note, it is quite dangerous that people still are completely blinded by years of "us-vs-them" and all kinds of binary belief traps. There is thundering amount of signals that the things which are happening are not quite normal.
And yet.. This should put to rest any notion that you can drown the public in lies and vitriol as part of "free speech". It kills people's ability to perceive reality and renders them unable to judge things on scales of civility, lawfulness, constructive behavior, ethics etc.
Instead, you get them to excuse all kinds of crimes against law and humanity, as long as they think they smell the musk of "their own pack", which has been defined as "owning the libs, hate towards transgenders/lgbt/foreigners" and other kinds of cultist/tribal feelings.