There’s definitely been a surge of it, but I’m not convinced they’re all genuine.

There are certainly a lot of bad actors out there, posing as leftists, and sowing inflammatory rhetoric and discord throughout left-wing spaces by calling for violence and insulting/strawmanning anyone who has the gall to disagree with them…

This “violence is the only way crowd” are certainly not out there in the cold putting their asses on the line. Most of them probably aren’t even in the US.