Been saying it for years. I’ve been comprehensively vindicated. The Gardai needed to clamp down heavy on the far right years ago. That they didn’t is why we are where we are now.
We seem the same thing in politics. They advance by intimidation. They are enabled by “respectable” conservatives who refuse to stand up to them. The “respectable conservatives” gaslight that the far right exists and portray anybody who correctly calls out the far threat as “the real problem”. The far right constantly push back the boundaries of what they can get away with. Then it’s suddenly too late.