One of the more maddening ongoing arguments in the social media cesspit is over which group represents the biggest threat to public security in Canada at the moment. Which movement or group is most likely to produce someone capable of doing something truly, historically terrible?

Most assessments conclude that it’s the “far right,” broadly speaking: Everyone from unabashed old-school neo-Nazis to newer, more inscrutable groups and online channels like Diagolon, which took shape during the pandemic and couches its vile content in humour or attempts at it.