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Yes, in general we over-apply extremism labels to political opponents, but specifically in the US in the last 8 years, the things labeled "fascist" tend to check more fascism checkmarks than the things labeled "socialist/communist" check socialism/communism checkmarks, by a pretty significant margin too (subjectively).

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I don't deny that, but we haven't reached that actual precipice point yet. If messaging remains as hamfisted The Atlantic article, it can make 2026 and even 2028 much more difficult to compete in, and actually puts us at a potential precipice point.

It's easy to imagine that we'll have fallen off the precipice well before you or I can definitively say "this is the moment, democracy is at stake, we must go to the streets."

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