ASPartOfMe wrote:
The answer depends on when you ask and your opinion what is the greatest threat. Is it the amount of and lethality of violence or what poses the greatest danger to the republic?
In 2020 during the “great awokeining” I argued it was the left because despite the right being behind the most political violence and the most lethal violence because the left was gaining control of institutions and the narrative at lightning speed.
In 2025 there is no argument it is the right by every metric. The right controls all three branches of government allowing them to pass illiberal policies and muting checks and balances.
The big picture is that we have been in a cycle of action, stronger reaction, stronger reaction to the stronger reaction with zero some thinking predominant. This has left the center, supporters of checks and balances, civility etc politically impotent. This is because when we call out extremism on one side we bolster or validate extremists on the other side, the classic no win situation. We flunk everybody’s purity tests.
I am irked by the narrative that any mild social or cultural conservatism is comparable to Nazis or National Socialism, or is an inevitable potential pathway to it.
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