>>anti-intellectualism disguised as enlightenment, Western morality recast as extremism,

I have to admit that I had to parse the above multiple times to reach only a weak estimate of intended meaning.
Enlightenment the historic period or religious rapture ? Morality (a rather helter-skelter set of behaviours common in a certain time span, already ranging wide in the period and land masses we witnessed as "Westerners") "recast" ?
Intellectualism as placeholder for logical thought, scientific method or (somewhat arbitrary defined) "rational" discourse ?

>Hi Bill. So I refer to an "intellectual definition" and you convert that to an attack. Of course intellectual means "rational rather than emotional" which used to be a prerequisite for adult discussion until incivility became popular and intellectualism a dirty word.
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>As for the Proud Boys: I can't rely on partisan media so the only other readily available source seems to show more finesse and thought than you'd expect from your and the media's caricature. Since you invoked Godwin's Law: perhaps they'll burn down the Reichstag next, so then we'll know. ;-)