eugyppius

A lot of lefties seem to be obsessed with the idea that the "right wing" is seething. I am genuinely not sure why. Could someone explain?

Projection. Their own political views arise from pre-rational emotions and they believe their opponents are equally governed by emotion and hysteria. To the extent the media portrays rightist positions as cruel and unjust, the only emotions they can imagine are anger & hate.

Yeah probably spot on. I think they are also more addicted to power than righties and so when they "win" and demonstrate they have power they think the right wing is in terrible shape, like it hasnt been losing power for 50 plus years, and anyone who has been rw for a year's fine

Yes those are typically people who are more neurotic and more emotionally invested in their politics and "their" "team" winning, and think everyone must be that way because they're also less self aware and unable to predict the way others think.

moldbug has some good insight here where he says that the right is actually just the set of people who are not the left

yes, very similar to Sieferle’s distinction between “politics” (the older - one would say today, right-wing way of thinking) and “system” (the modern, techno-progressive way of governance that we think of as left-liberal). https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1348536802144092166 …