I’ve been around long enough to engage the left in conversation from the Vietnam war era on.
We had better wake up to how “dangerous” and “criminal” the left has always viewed the most basic American values. They see us as killers who are about to destroy the world.
This justifies them doing just about anything to us. They hate us and they plan to eliminate us from American society and replace us with their fringe thinking. They are totally intolerant.
I think instead, they regard us as an obstacle to their complete control, and unbridled power. When one scratches a leftist, one usually finds a megalomaniac under the 'tolerant, enlightened' veneer. Everything else you said I agree with. Any criminal activity in furtherance of their cause is perfectly justifiable.