The fascist revival of the Trump era renewed the old asymmetry. After Charlottesville, DeAndre Harris — beaten by white supremacists in a parking garage on video — was himself charged at a Klansman's instigation before acquittal; in New York, David Campbell served a year for fighting outside an alt-right gala in a prosecution his supporters contrasted with the wrist-slaps given the Proud Boys' assailants of the same season. Anarchist prisoner Eric King's decade in federal custody was extended by prosecutions his defense showed to be built on retaliation for his politics.

From the J20 mass indictment of 2017 — over 200 inauguration protesters charged with identical felonies before the cases collapsed — to the Atlanta RICO indictment's sweep of anti-fascist organizers, the era's record repeats the century's pattern: the movement against fascism, not fascism itself, remains the more reliably prosecuted.