[quote=@Vilageidiotx]
I do agree the pendulum is in effect. The Alt-Right is probably a fad, like libertarianism was ten years ago. If I were a betting man I'd bet on centrist democrats becoming popular by 2020, so long as they don't do something stupid like run Hillary. 
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[quote=@Vilageidiotx]

There is Islamophobia. I mean, those guys who beat ups Sikhs are an example, in that they create a boogeyman version if Islam that ends up leading them to attack people who aren't even Islamic. If you are actively scared of random Muslims you meet in public, you would be Islamophobic. 

Also, regarding attacks in every day politics, both sides have had violent extremists, and in both cases they have been isolated. I suppose the left is more likely to be active in the streets because they are currently locked out of the political system, but thus far all we have had are isolated incidents. 

I will say that, for those few serious anarchist agitators among all the LARPers in the Anti-fa movement, the right-wing cracking down is exactly what they want. Marshal law would make the right wing pretty unpopular pretty quickly.  
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To add to the AntiFa bit: it's pretty easy to piss off conservatives. Shit, fucking walking out over Pence's speech in protest against him is considered by people in he and Trump's court as being literally equivalent to setting fire to a limo. I've read posts by old conservatives brought to my attention by friends of these people firing off about how it's disrespectful and how those students at Notre Dame shouldn't have stood up and left when he started speaking.

With things given how they are now, you can probably get the same ultimate effect by holding up a sign saying how much you hate the powers that be and it'll rile up an already excited right and AntiFa would get the crackdown to validate themselves.

But like with Islamic lone-wolf attacks it may also be a case of each one giving validation to the next for happening. In a strange way - coming from a self described anarchist myself - would be to simply ignore AntiFa and the protests in general and not add to discussions of Europe's next great explosion. The thing being to cut the flow of news and validation from source to receiver and deny those people that need validation to do what they want to do in the first place.