Far-right are nostalgic for a world that never was. Far-left are hopeful for a world that can never be.
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Insofar as that's true, Twitter is unsuited to these observations. But Twitter is also a hypertext medium & even short statements can suggest nuance rather than embrace reductionism. Even broadly, the far left is often nostalgic &, albeit perversely, the far right idealistic.
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The far-left generally regard Soviet Russia et al as failed implementations, hence the common refrain "That wasn't true socialism" (corollary being that utopia lies in some novel arrangement). Far-right, OTOH, largely model their ideals on an age of racial purity, ie. the past
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