Originally Posted by
JDogindy
It's sort of the difference between the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party. The Tea Party was clearly organized and set up to capitalize on unhappiness and frustration with conservatives and reactionaries (the polite term for the far right) that felt taxes were too high and the government was encroaching on everything despite evidence to the contrary, while Occupy was at best a fragmented movement and at worst a bunch of squatters. However, people were quick to mobilize and defend the Tea Party as patriotic while Occupy protesters were the scum of the earth, and I still remember an early Ben Garrison cartoon before he went all-in on epic backgrounds (I assume it was him) where the difference between a Tea Party member and an Occupy member was that the Tea Party member was a regular American while an Occupy member was a bum that was also likely to be a "murder, rapist, and drug dealer". Conservatives are far better at the organization game than liberals and progressives; that's how they dominate the media & the blogosphere. Right wingers have a goal; they achieve that goal. Liberals have a goal, they plan the goal, but never quite get to the goal because they spend far too much time planning it out in the design stage and then debating with others (whether or not you attribute this to the Democratic Party having a much larger range from liberals to moderates and even some conservatives is your call, but think about it). And I say this as a bleeding heart.
Again, Antifa is hard to figure out exactly what it truly is, so you can easily say it is "anything a liberal is" (which as you pointed out, is where the problem lies) which has been true for just about any snarl word for the past 35-40 years since the Reagan Administration, while the Alt-Right is firmly established, with their own culture, lingo (I wish I did not know about terms like "red pill", "NPC", "autistic screeching" {which especially hits home}, and especially the usage of triple parenthesis), websites, support system, and hell, even a possible economy. But it's because one of so well structured that they're able to create the illusion that the other is also structured and is out to get everyone, which instills fear in the unknown, and conservatives often rule by fear.