Perhaps, but its the other way around. Antifa is a response to the radical right white nationalism, not the reverse. Here's the thing too, Democrats run to the center while Republicans are actively courting these groups. I no longer support Antifa tactics, but with Antifa you have a choice, people can stop being fascists, can stop going to rallies and will be left alone. If the fascists win, we die, it's as simple as that. Antifa has no where near the organization or numbers that these right wing groups do. The far right is the most organized terrorist threat in the world. Their online organizing is far more sophisticated than radical Islam.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/28/right-wing-warnings-pose-far-more-danger-america-than-left-wing-violence/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1aef5ae142de
I really would have to disagree based on the attendance of their rallies and the distribution of votes. That is, unless you are collectively calling everyone in the Republican party right-wing, but the majority of the Christian right is not alt right even if you still consider them a fascist group. So that what you are describing as conservatism does not act as a collective whole.
So that what you really have is oppression and a whole bunch of who do not have the power to overcome a sort of generalized oppression with any kind of collective groupthink.
For example, there are hundreds of people with good ideas that would create solutions to many of the problems that we are having, and it is oppression that prevents a good idea from being successful so that it would become an encouragement to many of the regular people who want to form groups based on some common interest at the present time.
I think for most people, if they had some reason to feel real encouragement that something
good was really happening, most of these groups would disband and replace their online organization with a fishing trip or vacation to a national landmark. This is what people want to do and it is the oppression that is increasing that is preventing them. Oppression is an abstract concept, so an example of this oppression would be the censorship of solutions.
Either way, either group is not created by the other in reality because they don't actually seem to be located in the same place to begin with. Each group only knows about the theory of the other as they exist in some distant location so that they are more or less a fantasy. The left dominates the west coast for example, so the likelihood that this group was motivated by any real interaction of the right that is not primarily fueled by internet interaction is slim to none.
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Trump still fills up huge arenas, so I think that supports the idea of the right outnumbering the left. Antifa is pretty small compared to that and again does not have anywhere close to the organization levels that radical right groups do. I do consider the entire Republican Party to be right wing, and the fact is if faced with a choice will side the right-wing radicals over even the moderate left. I also consider the Christian Right to be just as dangerous as groups like the Proud Boys, and as Chris Hedges has been detailing for years, these people are fascists (and heretics).
Plus the right wing groups are gaining mainstream approval and the same is not true for leftists.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/proud-boys-republican-club-wwii-fascists.html
Its a trend that has happened before, and to me its clear who represents the bigger threat, and who has the power.
I do agree with you about oppression being the cause for all of this, but we have radically different ideas on what to do about it.