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Rick Bonin's avatar

Question anyone... what is the “horseshoe left”?

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Aaron Rupar's avatar

The term refers to the "horseshoe theory" of politics, which holds that on the extremes the far left and far right are very similar.

"What do the radical right and the radical left have in common? The so-called horseshoe theory, attributed to the French writer Jean-Pierre Faye, argues that the ends of the political spectrum are much more similar than one might expect at first sight. According to this theory, the political continuum from left to right is not a straight line, but takes the shape of a horseshoe." https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/3246

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Rick Bonin's avatar

So Greenwald is the poster boy of the horseshoe left I take it?

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Aaron Rupar's avatar

He is, though I would argue at this point his sympathies for right-wingers are fairly open.

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