I think they do those exact things when up against fascists. The people they’re fighting are those who espouse racial superiorities and commit acts of cultural

I think they do those exact things when up against fascists. The people they’re fighting are those who espouse racial superiorities and commit acts of cultural and physical violence to intimidate the populations of people they’ve chosen to see as inferior. Appeals to the centrist middle are only meaningful insofar as that same center is willing to act to protect the people being targeted by hate speech. If the center is frozen by its own obsolete sense of propriety in the face of this socially destabilizing hatred then I think it is not unreasonable to see a small group take the call to action on themselves.