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Why do you only pick the extreme right and not the extreme left in your examples? Radical communists are also all about overthrowing the government. I'm not saying that all communists are radical, but they exist. Extremists from all sides are the minority I'd say.
Because 76 million people aren't voting for an ultra-leftist. But they're voting for an ultra right-wing nutjob.
Because you can't even fill your fingers of communist driven politically motivated homicides on one hand but I'd lose boredom counting the number of right-wing extremist acts of politically-motivated homicides.
Because, clearly, the right-wing wing extreme is the fat greater threat. That you even propose this speaks to the very sensationalist arguments of McCarthyism itself, peddled by none other but right-wing extremists.
It is thus a blatant false equivalence fallacy, and right-wing extremism is causing overwhelmingly more damage to this country than any other group.