Sam Lowry said:
You simply refuse to recognize extremism on the right. But it does exist, and it's not just bad manners or "mean tweets." It is a rejection of core American values as surely as BLM and Antifa are.
I don't see much. The right pole in the GOP is Ron Paul. Yes, in society there are large but statistically insignificant numbers nazis, and white supremacists, and KKK folks,......but the ones who are not in prison are out in the trailer park giving one another tattoos between runs to buy/sell crystal meth. Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are indeed extremists, but also notably not Republicans and they number in hundreds, not thousands. etc.... They did not organize the demonstration at the Capitol, and neither did they instigate the (limited) outbreak of violence.
Literally all the mobs are leftists. Not one of the nearly 600 documented riots totaling over $2b in property damage in 2020 were perpetrated by an angry right wing mob coursing through the street. The people in nightly phalanx struggles with federal police over control of a federal building? leftists. The people who seized a police station and set up a 6 square block of autonomous territory? Leftists. The thugs entering a public restaurant and backing patrons up against the wall screaming them to "say the words!" Leftists. The mob who broke down a gate and threatened armed homeowners on their doorstep? Leftists. The people burning cities block by block? Leftists. The people shooting cops in the back? Leftists. All the people beating up on Jews and Asians? Not Republicans. No Republicans or even right wing radicals surrounded Kennedy's house after Obergefell. Not only do Republicans not cancel anyone on social media, they can't obtain or keep employment anywhere in Silicon Valley. Republicans are silencing anyone at school board meetings, etc..... Republicans are not the anti-science mask mandate crowd, or the mandatory vaccination crowd. Republicans are not using state power to suppress their opponents.
Republicans are not the problem here.
Republicans are not the current threat to liberty.
Democrats are.
Democrats have become patently authoritarian bigots.
Ordinary people can see that.
And ordinary people hate bullies.
That's why Democrats are going to get their asses handed to them the next couple of election cycles.
The left has left the bridge of classical liberalism. The right remains squarely on it, and has finally decided that it needs defending. You and Canada (for different reasons) are not going to participate in the fight. You are standing on the right bank looking back out into an empty landscape to conjure demons, because the Frankfurt School tells us that tyranny can only come from the right. Canada has decided the general has bad breath and retired to the 1st tee box. Meanwhile, the leftist militias drive a SCOTUS justice from his home over a draft ruling that will enjoy support of a majority of the public. Obviously, DJT is responsible for all of these problems, because he looked the barbarians in the eye and said, figuratively, "Foxtrot Uniform."