"If there is one lesson we can take away from the failure of Reconstruction following the last U.S. civil war, it is that we should not be lenient with fascists." Yeah but if there are *two* lessons, the other one is that vigilante mobs get results. If the state has lost the ability or political will to moderate the American right wing, what choice does the American left have besides vigilantism on its own behalf?
"If there is one lesson we can take away from the failure of Reconstruction following the last U.S. civil war, it is that we should not be lenient with fascists." Yeah but if there are *two* lessons, the other one is that vigilante mobs get results. If the state has lost the ability or political will to moderate the American right wing, what choice does the American left have besides vigilantism on its own behalf?