The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
I say this as a nobody with a very unimpressive IQ: Even I can see that these people are far too fucking stupid to keep getting away with this, unless society keeps allowing it.
Push back when you can. Stand your ground when you can't. You might not walk away unscathed, but you're definitely less likely to fall when you stand together. If you don't fall, you're left standing stronger than ever before, and with first hand knowledge of how little strength a strongman actually has.