In point of fact, some violence was actually instigated by far-right counterprotesters seeking to spark their new civil war. “The numbers are overwhelming,” former FBI agent and extremism scholar Clint Watts told The Washington Post. “Most of the violence is coming from the extreme right wing.”

[...] They are products of a long-standing cultivation project undertaken by the Republican Party and its media allies to agitate and radicalize its political base.

[...] Trump and the Republican Party own this violent phenomenon bag and baggage. Erroneously blaming “antifa” for the violence of their most devoted supporters will not wash away the stain of it. Their silence after the right-wing assassinations of the same law enforcement officers they shamelessly champion reeks like the very corpse of hypocrisy left to rot in the noonday sun.

https://truthout.org/articles/armed-extremist-groups-arent-lone-wolves-they-were-galvanized-by-the-gop/

If we keep up the pressure now I’m confident they will fold.