Massive, national movements are rarely pure.

America hasn’t seen this level of harsh rhetoric and politically motivated/sanctioned violence since the violent protests and the radicalism of the 1960’s.  - Michael Smith

Many people think of this period as the age of the Civil Rights struggle - and it was – but there was another component active as well. 

It was also a period during which the desires of anarchists and communists (just anti-capitalists, really) who chose to piggyback on the Civil Rights movement, were expressed – and often violently so...

Most of this agitation, radicalism and violence had ties to academia...

• The point of this diatribe is that we have seen this all before with one very big and very important difference.

In the 1960’s, the Republican and Democrats were allied against this radicalism as both parties of the era had seen the destructive power of both the authoritarian, socialist Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler and the rise of a dictatorial communist Russia and its pursuit of global territorial ambitions...

• This time, the contemporary radicals are the wholly owned subsidiary of a political party and the former 1960’s radicals form the intellectual leadership of this political party, a party hoping to use radicalism to propel them back to power.
• This radical political party is the modern Democrat Party.