[pigsmith]

With patience, we could transition to a more sane course without violence

I suspect we are seeing the ‘patience’ now, hoping for “a more sane course without violence”, but that patience is wearing thin. My gut feeling is that when the patience is exhausted, the lash back will not be pretty, nor will it take “a more sane course without violence”.

[Jamestown1630]

I think you meant ‘backlash’.

(Another interesting term is ‘blowback’ - something the liberals are beginning to experience.)