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Some of these post-Ngo-assault takes are beyond wild. Feel like my brain got zipped to another galaxy Opinion: The right want to make Antifa aggression a reason to stop confronting fascistshttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antifa-nazi-andy-ngo-quilette-portland-fascism-antifascism-far-right-gofundme-a8984256.html …
I've never heard a credible explanation of how counter-protests are supposed to change protesters' minds about anything, or weaken their influence, or undermine their credibility.
They present it as a political emergency where if you don't physically assault the Proud Boys doing their dumb march, it's Hitlertime in the US. It's intentionally conceived of as being beyond the realm of normal politics, so violence isn't just okay but an imperative.
Serious question, what should be done? Let them march unopposed? Defeat them in "the marketplace of ideas", which is working so well so far. You can't debate them, you're saying you shouldn't stand up to them, so what's left?
with a crowbar
A venerable line of argument among European Marxists, taking their cue from 1930s Germany, is that fascists are (avowedly) beyond the realm of civilised political discourse - have no use for it, in fact - and can only be defeated by being "smashed" in the streets.
I think it's a position that has some merit if you're talking about incipient stormtroopers whose next move is to drag away Jews, homosexuals, bohemians poets, etc. But, of course, once you say fascist = blogger critical of the left, disaster predictably ensues.
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