Bradley Lacke
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

I don’t disagree with that characterization of fascism, although as you can probably guess I’d point to the reactionary driving force behind fascism as more “important” to understanding it than the way it’s organized structurally.

And I agree that most conceptions of ideology that seek to graft it onto an orderly matrix are going to have little utility outside of the colloquial “other-ing” we see them most often used for. That’s actually my main problem with Horseshoe Theory, not that it’s not a beautiful sort of acknowledgement that we’re all extremely similar on both sides of the aisle, but that it’s used to further marginalize alternative voices. The man used to have to point to the wingnuts on the right OR the pinkos on the left, now he gets both birds with one stone.

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