Hector, I assume you know that's a metaphor. Not sure if "actuate" is a word, much less a metaphor.

By the way, do you know of life long conservative Republican Norman Ornstein?

Already in 2010, after doing an exhaustive study of extremists, he said there was no doubt that his party - the Republican party - had become extremists.

The Proud Boys and people supporting white supremacy (a Republican representative from the midwest just lost an election for saying, "I don't see what's wrong with white supremacy") make the Republicans of 2010 look like mainstream conservatives by comparison.

By the way you proved yourself wrong with that link to the Portland Antifa organization. They made clear all of their actions are aimed at stopping the fascism of the far right, and they disavow violence.

Here again are facts about Left vs Right terrorism.

Based on a CSIS data set of 893 terrorist incidents in the United States between January 1994 and May 2020, attacks from left-wing perpetrators like Antifa made up a tiny percentage of overall terrorist attacks and casualties. Right-wing terrorists perpetrated the majority—57 percent—of all attacks and plots during this period, particularly those who were white supremacists, anti-government extremists, and involuntary celibates (or incels). In comparison, left-wing extremists orchestrated 25 percent of the incidents during this period, followed by 15 percent from religious terrorists, 3 percent from ethno-nationalists, and 0.7 percent from terrorists with other motives. In analyzing fatalities from terrorist attacks, religious terrorism has killed the largest number of individuals—3,086 people—primarily due to the attacks on September 11, 2001, which caused 2,977 deaths. In comparison, right-wing terrorist attacks caused 335 fatalities, left-wing attacks caused 22 deaths, and ethno-nationalist terrorists caused 5 deaths.