By making excuses now, you are telling this rollercoaster it can find new victims when it's done with these.
You will be that victim.
Authoritarianism is not a joke, friends. You haven't seen the half of it, trust me.
They will not be THEM for very long. There will always be new THEMs. And if you let this go on unopposed, the day will come that THEM = you. But it'll be too late by then.