There’s a small fraction of the GOP that really does want to kill off gay people. Fires and ovens if they can get their way politically, and a Matthew Shepard on every fence post if they have to go the KKK route.

The other republicans do not appear terribly concerned about this, and would most likely stand by and let it happen.

The ‘good Germans’ of the 20th century also stood by and did nothing about extremism. Look how well that worked out.