The thing that worries about these people is that I don't think we're really sure how many of them are out there and how far they can be radicalized and how far they'll go.
I don't intend to fearmonger, but honestly state the above. But with the above comes the flip side: While some of these types of people have gone on murdering sprees, there haven't been many, and it's usually been that they've selected some target and some of them succeed and some of them don't.
The thing that actually worries me is that I think we may face an uptick in the rhetoric that drives some of these people to go out and shoot people; we may see groups like Proud Boys decide to go shooting instead of intimidating.
I don't know. I'm not saying these things are going to happen, but it's the thing that worries me most about that background level of nationalism and the people building up incel communities.
That said, this election gives me some hope. For a good while, I didn't really see a path out of fascism, but if we can get enough actual progressives in power and force the establishment Dems to be more progressive, get enough going to give us a blue President in two years with enough in Congress to get shit done AND if there's enough progressives in there to help real change happen, we might be able to show the American people that government isn't broken - just Republicans and establishment Democrats are. IF, and by damn that is just about the hugest if of all time, IF we can pull that off, maybe we can pull back from the brink of fascism - and by brink I mean more like we're already over the edge hanging on to a comically small tree root hanging out the side of the cliff with our fingers losing strength.
I'm hopeful that this low-level rumbling of fascist nationalist racist bullshit will remain low-level.