If you watch FOX almost all you hear about is left-wing violence and anarchy, never anything these days about C19, never anything about legitimate social grievances. They are stoking fears of left-wing revolt and may indeed be hoping that they can provoke a backlash of violence and counter-revolt by what you call short- and long-fuse right-wing viewers.
Whether or not you agree with the "AntiFa" label being applied to the communist agitators who are openly operating all of this chaos, like the guy ranting about how the revolution is coming in DC. There clearly are mobilized pro-Communism groups actively working to carry out the work of destabilizing the country. Thankfully they're largely restricted to a handful of cities(chiefly Portland), but they're out there. And as a reminder, AntiFa
historically has been the militant wing of the Communist Party. AntiFa in 1932 quite literally was the militant wing of the German Communist Party, of course, they weren't just Anti-Fascist, they were
also anti-liberal. And there is rhetoric coming from members of their modern American counterpart which reflects that. (And ignores the matter of the European version of AntiFa that resumed operations in the 1950's and is still around)
The communists are out and about, the Liberal leaning media is stupidly going with "the enemy of my enemy(Trump) is my friend" for now and are likely to get a very nasty shock in the next few months.
They don't want Biden to win, they want "the people's revolution," and they know a Trump victory is the best way to trigger one. Expect a concerted effort to raise up a third party candidate to siphon votes away from Biden to help Trump win to start "soon."
AntiFa in Portland is already encouraging people to vote Green instead of Democrat.
But by and large, I expect things are
intended to be kept at a simmer until the November election is held. Although people are really good about running things off the rails, so things could get crazy well before then. Or as the military often says "No plan survives contact with the enemy."
The issue with this cycle is it is horribly broken in many ways, the major media outlets have completely lost their credibility, and don't even bother to do their properly. Rather than actually doing the research off primary sources they're often scribbling together reports based on 2nd, 3rd and even 4th hand reports and running a story to fit their favored narrative.
The Democrats are desperately trying to curry favor with the extreme left wing(which is no friend to them) in order to ensure they have
turnout to win the election. While the Republican/Trump block is pretty solidly set at this point, if they're pro-Trump now, they're unlikely to budge at this point. Which just leaves a battle over the middle where a lot of people have to be utterly horrified at the choices being offered to them.
The "Easy call" is things go insane should Trump with the Electoral College again.
The more difficult call is what happens should the Democrats win, but that's one where they're currently making deals with the devil, and a consequence of that is they're likely to declare "a mandate for action" (Biden is now promising "Transformation") and doing things (to appease their extreme left-wing supporters) which is likely to move Republican Controlled states into essentially open rebellion against the new Federal Laws the Democrats try to enact, and we devolve into a very likely literal civil war 2.0 as state governments get directly involved in things.
Although it should be noted that certain state governments under a "Trump wins" scenario could go off the rails as well, California being
the prime suspect.
