I think once they can understand that what is going on around them is unacceptable

If they did, they wouldn’t be championing unjust laws, and the arbitrary enforcements. The “normal” they want to return to is where their arbitration and injustice suited them. They are willfully ignoring laws fascists break, while demanding us to “peacefully protest.” Only when fascists are breaking their doors down, abducting their own, raping, and shooting them, it’s when it clicks “did we policy wrong”?