To understand any of the madness, you HAVE to look to history because all this has happened before. It's all laid out for all to see, however most people either refuse to look or simply will not connect the dots.
These are all radical leftists. First and foremost. Trump has nothing to do with it other than being 'not radical left.' Republicans or conservatives in general, likewise. Christians are hated because the concepts of Christianity stand as a polar opposite to most of what the radical left believes.
When the various flavors of 'Brownshirts' in Stalinist Russia, Mao's China, Hitler's Germany or every other third world socialist wannabee country made their bids to take power, they didn't begin with automatic weapons and bombs. they began with whisper campaigns and propaganda to destabilize the current society/populations of the time. They accused those of power and influence of all manner of heinous crimes and actions with zero proof. Their 'proof' came in repeating 'the big lie', regardless of what lie was needed at the moment.
They spent considerable effort on the youth of the given cultures, convincing them black was white and up was down. Education became co-opted as did entertainment/celebrities and as time and power progressed, any dissenting voices were locked out and often disappeared.
At a certain threshold, the violence began and the history books record it all. But the radical left of old got it's start doing VERBATIM the very things we see with groups like Kick Vic/Anti-Comicsgate, Anti-Gamergate, Me Too, Environmental extremism et all.
The Shanes and Rons and Monicas arent simply stupid. They are "Useful Idiots" in the historical sense. They are doing what they do because of their politics and that political view's grab for power. They have been taught, as their predecessors before them, to propagandize, lie and destroy the system, regardless of what 'the system' may be, because it stands as a bulwark to the Utopian vision of their handlers.
Follow the money/power trail backwards. You see common names/groups feeding them their talking points. The feminism/partiarchy BS. The anti christian attitudes. The Orange Man Bad rhetoric. None of it is their original thinking. They just act as the shock troops delivering the 'message' and carrying out the enforcement. Just like the useless idiots of days gone by. The difference is that instead of a Stalin/KGM/Mao et all pulling the strings, you have the feminist/ANTIFA/DNC.
Same Communism, different century.