Jeremy Stangroom

that we are willing to do terrible things to people, once we view them as less than human; c) More generally, I object to rhetoric that

demonizes large groups of people - e.g., Trump voters, the white working-class -because whether you like it all not polarization and...

entrenchment are real political phenomenon (I'd point to the religious wars in Ireland from the 17th century onward as good evidence), and

if you want fewer Nazis, rather than more Nazis, you'd better take that into account, and, regardless, the lesson of history, again, is that

polarization & entrenchment tend to end badly (if you want an example, there was no particular anti-German sentiment among the British

population in early 1914, but by late 1915, it had reached such a fever pitch that it made a WW1 negotiated settlement impossible (and such

a settlement was mooted in 1917). d) And finally, I absolutely distrust the motives of people on the left who relish a street battle. If you

are willing to hammer people on the head with a heavy bicycle lock, then I don't want you anywhere near political power.