What do the rise of the far right, the far left "woke" movement, cancel culture, recent spikes in racial tensions, violence and vandalism have in common?
They all happened during the Trump presidency.
And now Trump is asking you to re-elect him for four more years.
Okay, fine, here's some context (thread):
What I'm getting at here is the rise of these previously fringe ideologies into the mainstream. The far-right is in the White House, and the far-left is heavily influencing mainstream Democrats — though the far left still hasn't fully
overrun liberals the way the far right has fully overrun conservatives.
What made the far left move from the fringe to the mainstream? Well, extreme governments legitimize extreme oppositions. This is why I think it's important to have mainstream liberals like Biden in office...
They represent the resistance to both the far right and the dogmatic woke left (e.g. Biden opposes defunding the police, repeatedly condemns violence and vandalism, and is more aligned with the Harper's letter signatories than say, Bernie)...
Having mainstream left-liberals in power will also help put the fringes back in the fringe. They'll take some good ideas from them (no doubt people like Bernie have made something like Medicare for All a mainstream Dem goal, for example), but it'll be a return to sanity.
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