Don’t want their ideology to spread? Don’t give them cushy interviews where they get to recite their talking points. Want to show their absurdity and hypocrisy? Do comprehensive research on individuals. Want them chased out of the city? Put on your running shoes.

(Or your Doc’s. Doc’s are also acceptable footwear.) But you’re definitely not going to counter the fascist creep by all acting less angry, or all making funnier jokes, or any other variation on ironically distancing yourselves from the realities of far-right violence en masse.

(And, lastly: “Just publicly ridicule these violent bigoted men! They’ll simply go home, embarrassed, and their days of attacking people in public will be over,” is gold-medal mansplaining. Have you, like, met toxic masculinity? Or, for that matter, anyone in Patriot Prayer?)