And both Greer and Vadum agree.
“Conservative kids should be doing their own self-defense training,” Greer told WND. “The Berkeley riot showed that they absolutely need to know how to defend themselves if they want to uphold their beliefs. Leftist political violence is only going to get worse, so right-wingers must get with the times and learn to fight back.”
Vadum also argued “this is only going to get worse.”
“The mainstream media is cheering on the violence and encouraging it at every opportunity by lying and saying that the Trump administration is a threat to Americans,” he said. “Conservatives should prepare to protect themselves. They should also pressure police to start shutting down riots before they start. Setting cars on fire and smashing windows is not free speech, but left-wingers who run local governments seem to think it is.”
Yet while more conservatives are awakening to the threat of left-wing violence, the greater threat is the left-wing media. Not only does it excuse left-wing violence, according to Greer and Vadum, but conservatives can expect a hostile reaction from the press even if they simply defend themselves.
“Imagine if it were College Republicans doing this,” said Greer. “The media and school administration would shriek that they had a barbaric skinhead gang on campus if these were right-wingers. They would immediately shut it down and possibly expel the students who started it.”
Vadum said campus authorities “would freak out if Republicans exhibited the bad behavior of leftists at colleges today.”
“They would read the riot act and demand it stop. They would ramp up expulsions of and disciplinary actions against Republican students for expressing forbidden ideas – something they already do but not yet on a wide scale.”
But Greer believes the left has become so extreme and thuggish that the double standard may soon collapse.
“I think after Berkeley, there might be now more leeway given to conservatives to start hosting these events,” he said.