The fears of both conservatives and liberals are reactive. Only they react in fear to different things. A person of liberal mindset is programmed to fear authority. So a news article on the lynching of someone for their religious view would effect a liberal more than a case of a shoot out or a mass killing or a lone wolf terror attack. The random act violence by a lunatic or a fringe group is not as scary to them as the wilful action of an establishment.
For a conservative however, it's disorder they fear the most. A random act of violence by a fringe element is seen as a threat to the establishment that they look to for security and symbolic meaning. Any act of violence perpetuated by it or in its name is a necessary cost for the survival of the establishment. Ultimately it can be written off.
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