Bigger picture here -
leftists, historically, “punish” their political opponents, often through the use of government force, but also through the use of government “sanction” of crimes committed against “conservatives” (whatever they were labeled in the contemporary setting).
Note the case of the voter intimidation thugs getting their default sentences revoked.
Next time, it will be a physical assault, and the gov’t, if still in leftist hands, will sanction that assault by not punishing the perps.
Funny, while you were posting me, I was post this on a thread on that subject:
Imagine if someone had taken down the clown with the nightstick in front of the polling place....