If inequality came down, left extremism and SJWism would likely dissipate naturally. It feels 90% like misdirected economic anger.
Harder to see what might drive right extremism down since it appears to be rooted in identity loss rather than economics.
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Contrary to early rumors of Trump voters being poor blue collar types, it turns out they are mostly quite well off (unlike say the Bernie end of things)
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It'd seem to depend on the mechanism in which inequality is alleviated; conservatives can tolerate high amounts of inequality as long as they believe results are "justly" distributed (using whatever idiosyncratic metrics they like), but likely wouldn't tolerate redistribution.
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(Granted, these are actual "conservatives", not alt-right identitarians; for all intents and purposes I treat those as having exact same pathology as extreme SJWs, which may or may not be alleviated via economics. It's an interesting question.
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My kneejerk response to alt-right-leaning friends is "okay, but why don't you have a job", so you may be on to something.
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An aha moment for me like I said was learning the trump voter demographic was *not* primarily poor blue-collar laid off types but well-off low-diversity neighborhoods. IIRC they were in fact slightly richer than average GOP voter.
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I only have personal experience with a couple brackets (40-55 lower-middle dads, 18-30 right identitarian part-timers). It's definitely a mix, but older bracket skews toward "they took er jerbs" and younger tends to skew toward "free speech on campuses".

