We can't fool ourselves that we're better humans, more evolved, more educated, more peaceful in the US than they were in China. Or Germany. Or Russia. Everywhere totalitarian regimes rise their supporters become zealots. We see it in the crazy eyes of Antifa/BLM/Climate/Trans/Hamas/Mask/Vax nuts. If we don't stop them now, when they accrue more and more power they will be the same humans here. And swear their loyalty to the regime and declare their own sacrifice is necessary for the revolution they believe in to succeed.

Come to think of it, we're the same human species as the Aztecs, who believed and did just that. We're no better beings at our cores. Only our shared belief in our system that has kept us safe and prosperous since the US Constitution and Magna Carta before that has made us better. Which is why these sociopaths are doing everything they can to destroy those human rights-asserting documents.