Some of the attacks on Republican offices have occurred in union country (Pennsylvania, West Virginia), and there have been at least two assaults on anti-Kerry protesters at rallies by men wearing shirts or gimme caps with union logos. Consider also that many unions have fallen under the thumb of organized crime. Many local police agencies are unionized. There is likely some pressure on police unions to have their members look the other way in case of union violence.
I don't doubt that many LEOs on the beat have no use for Kerry or union thugs, much less gangsters. However, the police chiefs, commissioners, and chief deputies are often politically liberal, spouting the usual PC cliches to please liberal mayors, city managers, and city councils. With such people in charge of police departments and local governments, political violence and intimidation are the equivalent of hate crime. Only Republican assaults on Democrats are "political violence," just as only white assaults on nonwhites are "hate crime."
The science fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote a story that imagined a charismatic religious leader, Nehemiah Scudder, seizing control of the United States through blood at the polls and blood in the streets. The source of the threat Heinlein perceived was wrong, but not the threat per se of elections manipulated by fraud and violence.
That explains why the Democrats had been in power for 40 years. How about that. I guess they are pissed. LOL
Ah yes, the not too bright, but very charismatic "First Prophet".
Of course there's also a lesson in "Fifth Column", and in "If This Goes On" itself for that matter.