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This is exactly what we’re seeing. Antifa and its associates are not operating in isolation. Last June’s Virginia ballpark shooting and the Las Vegas massacre are also examples of the left’s lunge toward violence, a connection that would be obvious were it not for the legacy media’s eagerness to obscure the issue. James Hodgkinson’s actions in Alexandria speak for themselves. As for Stephen Paddock, whatever his actual motive – psychopathy inherited from his father or recruitment by Jihadis – it is evident that his malice was fueled by a consuming hatred of the United States and everything associated with it. Paddock was that not-uncommon figure, the wealthy man who loathes the society that gave him success. (George Soros is only one other example.)
But taken all together, the new wave of left-wing terrorists can’t threaten the U.S. in any meaningful sense. A handful of crackpots with guns and a gaggle of teens in ninja costumes makes for a pretty sorry People’s Army. It can do damage, but limited damage. And kind of long-term gain is out of the question. The tactic utilized in Charlottesville – setting up a “right-wing extremist” march and confronting it with a righteous leftist counterdemonstration -- cannot be repeated without the machinations behind it being exposed. Their only hope otherwise is a “wasp” strategy – a series of pinprick attacks causing panic and overreaction by the society at large. (This interestingly, is the same strategy adapted by the Jihadis following the failure of Osama bin Laden. There’s something richly resonant about the fact that the hard left is, in the end, finding itself in the same bed as a motley crew of medieval fanatics.)