He’s highlighting their hypocrisy yet again by using the language they use when they are making threats.

Read up on Franz Ferdinand if you want to know how it goes.

Kimmel did not say he’s rightwing. He said the right is doing everything they can to make it appear he isn’t one of them. As usual, your collective persecution fetish fills in the blanks.

There’s a famous phrase: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s guaranteed to happen. The theme is played upon in LOTR when both Gandalf and Galadriel refuse the ring, knowing what it will do to them. It’s the most important metaphor Tolkien put into the stories for a good reason. Peter Jackson made those moments stand out, as he also understood the assignment. Nobody is capable of resisting the call of corruption when given absolute power. You are not an exception.