For a long time, we treated political violence like a weather event: rare, localized, tragic—then over. But law enforcement and researchers have been warning for years about a mindset that is different from normal extremism. It’s not “I want my side to win.” It’s “I want the system to break.” This mindset has a name: accelerationism. This is exactly what is happening in Minnesota right now. It’s moved beyond peaceful protest; it’s even moved beyond “mostly” peaceful protest. Things have begun to accelerate. “Accelerationism”—right or left—has a recognizable logic. It is a rising ideology that believes society is corrupt beyond...