We have seen this hatred and violence for more than twenty years from the leftist environmental community. Portland http://portland.indymedia.org/ and San Francisco http://www.ruckus.org/ are among the worst. Once they have inroads into the Democrat party and gain power, they do everything to “rule” conservatives by destroying traditional economies with regulation and forcing their ideology on conservative areas. Welcome to the world of the rural west.
Yes, Portland is and has been a hotbed of radical leftism for years.