A Quick Journey Into the Fascist Mirror Universe
The commonalities between left and right aren’t a “horseshoe” — but they do reveal a shared crisis of politics
For leftists, a quick skim of frog twitter could cause a lot of cognitive dissonance.
The first thing I noticed, on Richard Spencer’s Twitter, has been obvious a while, but doesn’t really make sense if you’re operating with the left’s understandings of the alt-right: Trump is not their guy. In line with much of the counter-signaling of Trump that goes on with the alt-right, Spencer highlighted an anti-fascist tweet Trump Jr liked. It makes sense if you’re following the situation without TDS.
The second thing I noticed was the number of “critical” types offering self-reflection on the decrepitude, institutionalism, and electoral narrow-mindedness of their movement in a manner that reminded me of the most “critical” left-communist sorts.
Bernie stans:
More “leftcom” lament, including critique of “cargo cult” attachments to 20th century political forms that no longer have a social basis:
Anti-imperialism! Something leftists tend to miss about historical fascism too. Absolutely relied on an anti-imperial narrative:
Let us zoom in on that “we fucked up” thread…
Funny how the far right is willing to admit the historic decline of conservatism, and their own marginality, but the left is constantly inflating the power of both.
So more anti-trumpism and Bernie support. Unlike the Assadist below (and the left has their fair share of those) the left can’t admit that fascism is fringe because 1) it faces a similar crisis 2) there is a need to rationalize militancy:
Fascist polycules!
Pivoting to (national) socialism for normies when confronted with the way everyday people respond to the ideology:
Clearly, quite a bit of ideological scrambling is taking place as the political meltdown continues on both sides!
