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Who Has Moved More, The Left Or The Right?

Extremism is about what you do, not how you talk

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Ben Domenech
Apr 29, 2022
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This is an interesting little phenomenon sparked by an Elon Musk tweet — a debate about how much the left has moved compared to the right over the past decade and a half:

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Ross Douthat had this response, which of course resolved it all immediately:

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