This is fairly insightful. Some of it can we written off as bad-faith knowing abuses of rhetorical tactics. But the situations that don't fall into this group

This is fairly insightful. Some of it can we written off as bad-faith knowing abuses of rhetorical tactics. But the situations that don't fall into this group are more troubling as they can involve sincere and passionate advocates of civil society acting in ways that undermine that very thing.