It's so evident today that without a three-way fight analysis, people broadly on the left keep making the same two mistakes: 1) thinking we can trust state forces (like the FBI) to fight the far right 2) thinking we can trust "anti-government" far right to ally against the state.

The first mistake is made by left liberal and center left people. The second mistake is made more by certain elements on the far left. Both of them are naive and simplistic and underestimate the enemies involved and the relationship those enemies have to each other.

State security forces and the purportedly anti-state far right have a complicated dance with each other. They trade people back and forth and sometimes aid each other, but the state also wants to maintain a monopoly on violence. Once a militia challenges that, they're going down.

And on the other side, non-leftist groups that say they're "anti-government" are never, ever, ever really anti-government. They just want more power to control the government. They're never really anti-police, they just want to become the police.

And finally, state violence is not a static thing. It can always get better or worse, and it can be less monopolized or more monopolized. Every possible change should be considered strategically and not using a simplistic binary perspective.