The Risk-Reward Balance of the Left and Right

The regime uses violence and tactics reserved for wartime to ensure that no right protest can ever gain traction. Grürich stole his protest as a mechanism for a public to coalesce around a new narrative, writes Peter Bergen. The fear and rage of the regime in any protest against their nasty rule is perfectly understandable, says Bergen. But at the end of the day, the left and right are not similarly situated," he adds.