It is true that the Nazis and KKK are currently more dangerous in terms of physical violence than hard-left groups.
I don’t agree with this since BlackLivesMatter — a group so closely embraced by the American left that the Democrat Party invited their offshoot, Mothers of the Movement, to address their 2016 National Convention — have been involved in dozens of riots as well as the deaths of numerous police officers over the last several years.
That said, I have the deepest respect for Professor Dershowitz for immediately following it up with the obvious:
It is also true that the most violent groups by far are radical Islamic terrorists, who are not the targets of Antifa protests.
As far as this:
President Trump’s inclusion of the words “violence on many sides” — which seemed improvised — suggested to some a moral equivalence between the Nazis and the KKK, on the one hand, and those protesting and resisting them, on the other hand.
I personally have no problem with the concept of a moral equivalence between the racist hate typically associated with the right and the class-based, status-obsessed, prosperity-resenting hate typically associated with the left. Morally speaking, there’s little difference between hating someone solely based on their race or ethnicity versus hating someone solely based on their social class, economic status or material wealth.
In my eyes, there’s little to choose from between a right-wing demagogue like David Duke or a left-wing demagogue like Elizabeth Warren. Despite our media’s attempt to demonize one while legitimizing the other, both are peddling poison