I would say it depends on where you are in America, of course being from the south i see quite a bit of reactionary tendencies. The media portrays an extreme view, however seeing the roots of the extremes, like how conservatism is like soft fascism, then i see where the reactionaries come from. When given the chance reactionaries will shed their facade of caring conservatism and go full blown reactionary, in a recent case being the shooting of BLM protesters by a 17 year old from out of state. In certain people you can very much so tell that if shit hits the fan this person is going to be reactionary, the thing about contemporary events is that these reactionaries are letting loose because they believe they are morally justified by their lables of BLM protesters as “antifa terrorists” that they don’t have to feel guilty about shooting them, and that they will be remembered as a hero by their fellow reactionaries, as is the case for Kyle, the 17 year old. With the media it does put reactionaries on the forefront of our minds which only empowers them and the cycle continues. I would like to think that America wouldn’t be that reactionary if shit were to hit the fan, but with the knowledge that many Americans are falsely guided by propaganda, then they are highly likely to fall into a reactionary mindset given an incentive, say, a call to arms, I personally know many people like Kyle, which scares me to think that possibly these people would go and do something akin to what he did given the chance. The main point i am trying to get at is with the polarization of politics in America causing people to flood to extremes on both ends of the political spectrum, we cannot be sure if those around us are reactionary due to many people masking their true beliefs, and so there might be a lot more Kyles out there then we think. Honestly I hope i’m wrong.

TL;DR: because of political polarization there could be many more potential reactionaries out there then we think.