I was a kid during the late stages of the Cold War. Duck and cover drills, whispers of the Reds, watching movies like Red Dawn. And thinking that it was all just a bit overblown.
It wasn't. Commies were and are still Enemy #1.
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Perhaps in the context of European or (maybe) Latin American, but I really don't think that's the case in the American context.
Look, you can always find some leftist loony talking about wealth redistribution. But these people are far further from any serious political power than *actual* white supremacists within and proximal to the current junta in D.C.
The USA has had a few paroxysms of organized, violent Leftist groups. The anarchist bombing campaigns of ~early 20th century... The "weather underground" and similar groups in the 70s.
Meanwhile, the KKK has operated in an unbroken string of leadership for 100 years, to say nothing for all of the other violent, right-wing groups inciting racial terror during that time period.
And you might say "oh these are just the extremes so it doesn't matter" but that's not true. Extremist groups act to pull party "base" to the left or the right. Even the most Progressive Democrats aren't about to start bomb-making campaigns....
But a non-zero fraction of people at a typical Trump rally probably knows friends or family who go to the woods to shoot guns at Barack Obama bullseye targets.
I mean for petes sake avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes is considered within the Overton window of the modern MAGA right... And *communism* is enemy #1?
Heard, but disagreed. I stand by my statement.
Yes.