Everyone is going to be in a shock.
Us a little less so, but even many anons here don't seem to be putting the pieces together. Perhaps my mosaic is a little off, but the real challenge for the right is going to be on the faith front as much of our known history of faiths is challenged or outright destroyed.
Then there is the choice that comes with that.
An old friend of mine - back from my teens - was (and probably still is) Wiccan. I don't blame her for a number of her views as she grew up in a rough environment and has plenty of reason to be embittered. Even so - her and I shared a connection that was special, and I am fairly certain that she has zero ill-intent toward people … With the caveat that she could be extremely passionate toward issues she saw as threatening to the future. Tribalism can work on all of us.
She told me of a dream she had once, and this was long ago - where the local Christians hunted her down and killed her. I was in it. When asked in what way - she said "well, if I'd done what you said, I would have lived." As a much younger person, I could only see my own feelings on the issue, and assumed that I must have been trying to help her evade capture in some way, and she was stubborn.
I know a little better, now.
Not that it changes my disposition.
Those guilty of crimes need to be brought to trial for those crimes - but I would be rather shocked if she were associated with any to such a degree as to be wittingly complicit/guilty. At least of what I consider truly evil. Perhaps a foolish protest here or there that broke some municipal laws, but a true evil crime… That's just not her, even when she is fully enraged over something.
As such, my choice would always be to try and repair the rift. If she is being deluded by snakes - then all the more reason the sword needs to be carefully wielded.
My point is that one of the greatest challenges is yet to come, and that is setting aside the old disputes and offenses. At the end of the day - all I ever really wanted was to be able to pursue my engineering interests and meet up with some of my friends from that old Eve of Memories and raising a family. I started fighting the left because they were made into obstacles toward that goal (or to appear as threats to it). They became the left for similar reasons.
The fight against the true enemy isn't over, so it isn't time to relax too much. But as I look back on things and at many of my earliest friends… I find myself becoming a sort of Kyoko Sakura toward the end. Which… She was my favorite out of the series. Best character arc out of them all, and the one who preserved her humanity in the end.
Sis Puella Magi… Actually… The show has some interesting parallels to the existential subjects being brought up by Q et al… People as food, how the blood lines view themselves, etc…