The Rise of Bilateral Political Violence in the United States

Non-state actors on the right who might engage in such violence have no elite protection. In Rome, whatever your politics, if you beat up or killed your political opponents, you might be brought to trial. This obviously makes political violence now against regime tentacles unprofitable. Only when the regime has to play whack-a-mole is bilateral political violence likely to come back into fashion. It will probably happen when the daily situation of the average person becomes very much worse as a result of some inevitable crisis. But I bet that at that point, when the balance between costs and benefits inverts, two-way political violence becomes very fashionable very quickly - just like it did in 1930