Maybe, but this is not how many of the centre voters experience it. For them it felt like it was not isolated incidents but rather things happening in many places and in many domains, sometimes close to them or people they know. And what they fear is not neccessarily the current situation but the perceived escalation of the frequency and intensity of these incidents.
The classic example is whenever a Tesla gets in an accident its all over the place. You would think no other cars ever have accidents, frankly.
But that's just because I happen to be informed about Tesla. For someone who is merely perusing the news, I would expect out of 100 people who have no actual experience probably what, 70 of them? Would think from the reporting that Teslas are more dangerous as opposed to less dangerous, which anyone on these boards knows is the case.
So, I agree with you. Out here in the Los Angeles area there were no shortage of protests. The ones I saw personally in Highland Park around York blvd were as mild as could be, with the only real effect being more traffic. A good friend has a coffee shop and the only effect had was to sell more coffee than usual and I guess have more people ask to use the bathroom or something.
I'll give you another tidbit. As far as I could find out, and I really looked, Antifa doesn't exist as some sort of actual entity. The reason I looked was it looked unfair that these Proud Boys knuckelheads seemed pretty well funded and showed up all over the place, obviously with a travel budget, and with money to gear up. I figured, he, maybe Antifa could use some donations so that if a fight breaks out at least they can fight back, wear some bullet proof vests, or whatever.
But Antifa does not exist in the sense that I could find, like actually donate money to them, or even get a newsletter or whatever. Man, consume any conservative media and you would think Antifa is like the Sierra Club, or, to be more accurate, at least like maybe BLM which has some organization.
So I would speculate that there are plenty of conservatives out there who, as you say, are worried about some "Antifa protesters" getting out of control. There are criminals everywhere, and I would not go to a protest which looked to unorganized or anywhere people might be liquored up, like an away soccer game that England is playing someone, for example.
But millions of people are worried about a liberal problem which is non-existent.
Its really depressing. And Musk is buying Twitter. Who knows, he might have some plan to limit propaganda of any stripe, but it doesn't sound like it at the moment.
