The Politics Of Smashing Faces

Friedersdorf has noticed that many "hard
core progressives" and "movement conservatives" think that "their ideology would prevail more often
if only their partisans were more angry, their attacks more pointed,
their operatives more ruthless." He thinks this mistaken:

Lots of hard core progressives and movement conservatives are wrong:Political and ideological gains don't come from being best at smashingfaces through plate glass windows or winning news cycles or employingthe most extreme...