Reply #8: Who benefits by the reaction to these masked rioters?

[Judi Lynn]

From the article:

The clashes on Saturday and the revulsion triggered among mainstream Swiss by the unusual street violence are likely to play into the hands of Christoph Blocher, the tough-talking populist and millionaire industrialist who leads the Swiss People's Party (SVP), the far-right movement tipped to win the elections later this month following a campaign denounced as overtly racist by a United Nations watchdog.
(snip)

And the opposition is too stupid to have been able to recognize this without going through the act of rioting? Not likely.