Now, as a political tactic, underdiscussed precedents regarding punching Richard Spencer in the face include the SPLC’s approach of defunding disliked rightist groups by filing claims in friendly courts seeking damages for targeted violence that their ideological programs inspired in their audience.

And that Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps was a civil rights lawyer who used the Westboro Baptist Church as a profit-generator by seeking damages for attempts to suppress their unpopular expression.

Which, using the court system to shake down a deeper-pocketed NGO with antifa sympathies, literally a police-enforced imperative to be nice to white nationalists, you’ve got the question of who else in the ecosystem says “Damn the courts, we’ll stir up violence against who we want” – becoming suppressable in normie-friendly idiom – and who demoralizingly splits solidarity and adds WN-positivity to their HR sessions and social media policy.

Course you need a martyr to even start that questline