They can do both.

As long as people refuse to help the helpless (for fear of their own comfort) then we will slowly have all civil rights stripped from us.

First they came for the flat-earthers, and I said nothing because I am not a flat-earther.

Then they came for the Q-Anon deep-staters, and I said nothing because I am not a Q-Anon deep-stater...

By the time they got around to silencing the independently minded skeptics and free-thinkers, there was nobody left!