I suspect the right-wing people your age are merely laundering their appetite for violence through the actions of their elected state. What do they think of the ICE shootings in Minneapolis? Double-tap strikes against Caribbean fishing vessels? Our queue of regime-change operations and Hegseth's "no quarter" rhetoric?

Remember this? "We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." Violence against perceived enemies is a core part of the Republican party platform.

If there is, in fact, a rising tolerance for violence among some on the left, I can't help but see it as reactive, not proactive. Don't make a punch if you can't take a punch.