1. The problem with this formulation is that it sees illiberalism & extremism as rooted only in far left & far right. But historically the most dangerous illiberalism is from centrists.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/971802635912269829 …
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I think the word 'extremist' is useless or misleading. Putting policy on a spectrum encourages people to think 'moderates' are the only 'sane' ones and represent 'compromise'.
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It feels like we focus too much on political spectrum placement, and not nearly enough on the personalities occupying that spectrum.
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Again, these men can only be construed as *centrists* in terms of the majority American political climate of their time. From a leftist perspective they were all conservative liberal bourgeois, far to the right of any recognizable *center.*
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Thank you.
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Heck, you can go back to the Revolution which was financed by well-known mainstream figures who really had more issues with taxes than freedom. We haven't changed that much.
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Adenauer, in Cologne, and von Papen in Berlin were both centrists that paved the way for the NSADP seizing power.
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4 grew out of 3, which also had its roots in 2
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I think there's a logical fallacy here. You can't use the bad shit done by centrists as vindication for extremist positions. Centrists have just had more opportunity to do bad things. We've never truly seen an extremist in power in North America.
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Of course. When centrists participate in illiberalism, it is by definition, mainstream and therefore most powerful and deadly.
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