If you have no threshold, like the writer at Esquire, you believe that if the government says to kill every person named David who is born on the third Thursday of every month as a sacrifice to Molech, then it should be done and enforced by the power of the state. There is no difference between you and a Nazi or Fascist or their rightful heirs, Margaret Sanger and the eugenicists and abortionists.
We are where we are. This won’t go away, this will continue until one party backs down, the *.gov, or the people. It may occur by preemptive surrender, but I seriously doubt it. That means that at some point, whether this is it or just one more skirmish, it will all come to a head. The *.gov is playing with fire, even if it doesn’t know it.