Horseshoe Theory Shown Correct

[Trausti]

This is apparent from the many threads on this board. The far-left behaves just as irrationally as the far-right. The hysterical looniness displayed by some in reaction to Trump's election and presidency is, really, just the obverse of those on the far-right who behaved equally loony at Obama's election and presidency.

Here.

And this is not a parody -

 

[Axulus]

I'm not a "far left loon", and I loathe theocrats, but I would much prefer Mike Pence or Ted Cruz to be our president than Trump.

It's about the stability of the individual and the utter disregard for any semblance of truth than any policy issue.

 

[Trausti]

I'm not a "far left loon", and I loathe theocrats, but I would much prefer Mike Pence or Ted Cruz to be our president than Trump.

It's about the stability of the individual and the utter disregard for any semblance of truth than any policy issue.

It is very doubtful that that a President Pence or Cruz would be treated any differently than Trump by the far-left. After all, before Trump became literally Hitler, the left also gave the Hitler/Fascist label to Bush the Younger, McCain, and Romney.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The difference is the far right is represented in US Congress.


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[Crazy Eddie]

This is apparent from the many threads on this board. The far-left behaves just as irrationally as the far-right. The hysterical looniness displayed by some in reaction to Trump's election and presidency is, really, just the obverse of those on the far-right who behaved equally loony at Obama's election and presidency.

The thing is, Trump actually gave people REASONS to be concerned about his values and behavior. Like, very STRONG reasons at that, things that came directly from his actions, his background, and the people he surrounded himself with. The rightwing rage against Obama, on the other hand, were mainly knee-jerk reactions to otherwise moderate policy proscriptions, many of which weren't even originally his idea. The reaction to the ACA is a very good example of this: Conservatives liked it just fine when a Republican came up with it, but once Obama was caught proposing it they were calling it the worst law in history and made repealing and replacing it one of the most important issues for their party.

Trump, on the other hand, is disliked for the things he explicitly promised to do. To wit: banning Muslims from entering America, deporting all (most? Some? Enough?) illegal immigrants, deregulating all of the banks and manufacturing industries, gutting Obamacare, stripping protections for homosexuals and/or minorities, and funneling huge windfalls to military contractors at the expense of social programs.

IOW, Obama was hated for all the things rightwingers irrationally feared he was going to do. Trump is hated for all the things rightwingers HOPED he would do.

 

[zorq]

I find it amusing that the study was able to identify 149,693 right-wing individual extremists on twitter but could only find 27,927 left wing extremists. That's more than 5 times as many Right wing extremists as left wing extremists. Interesting.

As to why those numbers don't add up to the 355,000 shown in the OP is a mystery. Maybe that article is talking about a completely different study.

Of course, their selection of extremists is a little suspect to me because they, used in part, opinions on abortion to distinguish between left and right extremists. Anyone with mild knowledge of politics understands that the topic of abortion is far from cut and dry along political lines.