Violent, fringe, left-wing movements are of little importance because they have no corollary representation in electoral politics and are largely defunct. They’

Violent, fringe, left-wing movements are of little importance because they have no corollary representation in electoral politics and are largely defunct. They’re likewise so far outside the neoliberal consensus of the Democratic Party that they have little hope of finding their way in. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said for the right, which has a great deal of transit between milita groups, white supremacists, and the Republican political establishment. This is clear in Trump’s pardon of Amon Bundy, the dismantling of counterintelligence monitoring these groups’ activities, and in the rhetoric of politicians like Iowa representative Steve King.