For a bit of historical context -
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2017/08/18/the-taliban-of-the-modern-american-left/
Strange isn’t it that the left somehow always manages to be on the side of tyranny in one form or another.
Here is a prescient excerpt:
In the whole of the United States at the present time, there would hardly be as many as 100,000 Nazis or members of the Klan, who would have about as much political clout as a modern prohibitionist. Their sole value in todays world are as background props for Democrats to parade themselves as soldiers of virtue, when they are actually Americas greatest danger
Quite frankly, I think he grossly undercounts the number of would-be modern prohibitionists and underestimates the danger that they pose to the Republic - but that is another issue for another day.