@Uncle Gunnysack,
Some of it depends on ones point of view.
Daisy recently did an article about how Steve Bannon believes this will be the most vitriolic year in American politics since prior to the Civil War.
Reading some of the comments, and I am inclined to believe these are real people and not bots, some have a automatic belief that it will be those on the right who will initiate violence.
Yet they do not acknowledge the violence of antifa.
However, in their defense, depending on where they get their news from, corporate MSM which is predominately left-wing, self-censors and does not report anything that paints the left in a negative light. Only when a story gets so big it cannot be ignored that they then report on it. The situation in Venezuela for example. For a long time, only alt-news media was reporting on it, until it became such a large humanitarian crisis it could no longer be ignored.
One of the first tactics in spinning up to conflict is to dehumanize the opposition by calling them names, derogatory terms, making them less than human. Easier to beat on someone if they are “insert name here.”
One side calls the other deplorables, Nazis, racists, whatever-phobe.
The other side, snowflakes, loonies, libatards.
You get the idea.
The fact there have been more and more reporting of people having melt downs, assaulting people over a hat, or tee-shirt, I think is an indicator and warning of where this country is heading.
There was a recent Washington Post (left-wing corporate MSM) about the concern of possible pro-Trump supporters taking to the streets in violence if Trump were to lose the election.
But they refuse to entertain the idea of what if Trump wins due to the Democratic candidate is too far left, alienates the Democratic moderates and the Independents and they all stay home and not vote, giving Trump the win.
Is it not just as equally possible say Sanders supporters take to the streets in violence and “resist” by any means necessary?
Did we not see some of that after the 2016 election?