He advocated defending yourself violently because that's what is required nowadays.

Conservatives looking to peacefully assemble and publicly debate need to be realistic. Nobody is going to help you. In fact, they're going to encourage violence. They're going to excuse, justify and encourage it.

We saw as much with Charlie Kirk. They were practically begging someone to go after him, and when someone did, they quickly justified it.

Well, I think now that we know the extent of it, the time to go as lambs to the slaughter is OVER.

In real terms, this means: Bring security with you that's dying to dole out drubbings. I'm sure a fair amount of ex-cons who found Jesus loved Charlie Kirk. Maybe they need work?

Whatever works. We need to reinstitute the cost.

So some activist takes the sign next to your table at a public debate, like what happened here? She gets instantly clotheslined. I don't care if police are present. Do it anyway. In fact, be wildly disproportionate.

A fat black lady assaults your on-camera talent? Book the kind of security that has no qualms hospitalizing her and people like her.

Dudes rope up your car and start vandalizing it? Bros dismounting with cudgels will fix that real quick. Turn it into an instant brawl. Break bones.

Force corrupt police to intervene. I want blood in the streets.

Speaking of costs, such a posture is indeed costly. It'll cost money, firstly. Security isn't cheap. It'd likely cost about $1,000 a day for just two guys. It'll also come at a social cost, and a legal cost. Bragg might not prosecute militant liberals, but he'll certainly take a conservative organization to court if his street brutes are harmed.

But you know what else isn't cheap? The social compact in America. It comes at a cost. If patriots aren't willing to step up and bear the burden, our people will continue to be harassed, assaulted, even killed with impunity.

What's clear to me in these two examples is that liberals believe they have a monopoly on both legal and extra-legal acts of violence. They don't. We need to show them they don't.