It does. Popper's answer to the paradox of tolerance works perfectly well regardless of which side of the political spectrum you're on:

"I'm righteously intolerant of the political right's intolerance of my beliefs."

"Oh yeah? Well, I'm righteously intolerant of the political left's intolerance of my beliefs."

In the end, invoking the paradox is just a convenient fig leaf for those who want to justify their bad behavior.

(And that's completely ignoring the fact that Popper's answer to his paradox is not the only one, as the Wikipedia article itself mentions.)

Thanks for this. "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance."

It seems to hinge on "rational argument" to base determination on whether tolerance is warranted, lest intolerance creep in. I wasn't able to discern the bar for "rational argument". Do you have some more info?

And yet people who make that argument are usually the most intolerant of anyone.

It hands people an excuse on a silver platter to exercise their bigotry.

People who have a moral excuse to engage in evil are almost always the most dangerous and evilest of the bunch.