Versailles created Nazi Germany, because it was a bastardized middle ground. It was neither harsh enough, nor gentle enough. Even then, the Allies refusing to enforce it is what created WWII.
In the here and now, the Democrats are in the stage of making a mad dash to permanently consolidate power. Some of them clearly understand how easily their position could be overturned, some of them seem to think that their position is absolute and unassailable.
I don't know if any of the realize that the reason the right in America is so slow to violence, is because we understand once political violence becomes the accepted way of resolving political conflict, you have to rebuild your Republic from scratch, and there'll be thousands of corpses along the way.