What drives their "fanaticism?" It's perfectly reasonable to offer up economic hypotheses. I didn't see any of you and your ilk decrying speculation about The Madness "protesters" this summer or the Occupy Wall Street kids a decade ago. It was perfectly acceptable to speculate as to the seemingly rational reasons for their "fanaticism."
Or do you believe that the lot of them on the Left and Right are all mentally ill, operating on paranoid delusions?
Since I know what's coming, let me state again that the behavior today was despicable, and I'd wager that I would support harsher sentences for these people than most here. Thugs who attack cops and destroy our property and vandalize not only deserve time behind bars, but a billy club to the head. But I'm not interested in seeing the crocodile tears and hand-wringing about the violence and vandalism from the Summer 2020 Apologists and the "I Couldn't Agree More" crowd. Do you know what I mean by that? I mean the folks who never offered up their own condemnations of The Madness. They just weren't that moved to do that. But if you pushed them enough, you could get an, "I couldn't agree more" out of them. The grossly inconsistent levels of outrage for similar, and, frankly, more destructive mayhem during the summer calls into question whether the current level of outrage from this crowd is motivated by actual revulsion at the violence and destruction in principle, or just more about the anger they have towards their political enemies.