I’m just going to say this again concerning right-wing extremists:

Well- in the case of the radical paulians, it’s not much more simple than what I’ve already stated. They see the current system as broken, and the way to get back to “smaller, less intrusive government” (in their minds) is to break the current contract (the Constitution) and re-establish it anew (which is meaningless, because it’s an already broken contract with no authority). Instead of abiding by the democratically agreed system, they seek to replace our existing authority with their own. But we’ll get back to that.

Additionally- this has a lot to do with nationalism. Clearly not left wing thinking, which is multi-cultural/international in its scope. When taken to its extremes, nationalism can lead to such things as genocide and secession (where have we heard that lately?).

Now, back to the Constitution-

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

-The Federalist Papers

When We the People agreed to live under the Constitution, we conceded some of our rights to the government in exchange for limitation on government power to protect our remaining rights. It was a trade-off. The Constitution limits the power of government with internal checks and balances, and The Bill of Rights guarantees remaining powers that belong to the People.

It is those on the right who mistake individual rights and states’ rights as trumping the right of the Federal government to also exist. They have that right because our forefathers granted that to them by ratifying the Constitution. So if you want to continue to delude yourself that radical/violent anti-Federal government ideology is not extreme right-wing thinking, knock yourself out.