@inthehands while I agree with humiliating fascists, pretty much without reservation, I'm not talking about approaching someone who thinks these are the "good guys" & talking them out of believing that
That's not gonna work.
They will need to be convinced by the actual destruction of things they care about. And they will need to (correctly) attribute that to these dudes who did it, not some trans kid in Maine.
Meanwhile, I found this a good framing of where we are: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-present-crisis-and-the-end-of-the-long-90s/