Have been thinking about the reasons *why* right-wing protesters get so much leeway from law enforcement and other authorities and came back to this piece I wrote last January, about the big gun rights demonstration in Richmond. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/opinion/richmond-gun-rights-rally.html

the crucial insight of “some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses” is that “working forces” and “burning crosses” are understood by “some” as existing on the same continuum of action.

when law enforcement refuses to treat right-wing radicals as legitimate threats to the security of state, that is telling you something about what law enforcement understands to be the values of the state!