Nathan Allebach
1 min readApr 27, 2019

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Agreed. In the past 10 years the left and right have largely switched in terms of their party unity/inclusion. I remember 10 years ago or so, if you were LGBTQ+, pro-abortion, anti-war, pro-drug legalization, etc., you would be ostracized from the right. Now they largely welcome people with those viewpoints, whereas the left has raised their barrier to entry in terms of how “woke” or leftist a media outlet/figure is. I think much of this is due to a combination of the leftism resurgence that’s splintering the party between leftists and liberals/centrists, plus the social justice movements that are now pushing/pulling the party in multiple directions, either pressuring liberals/moderates/centrists to become more progressive or more right-leaning. On the right, they’ve lost the culture wars in many senses, so now they’re forced to unite subgroup identities that they previously wouldn’t (e.g. libertarians, centrists, classical liberals, alt-right, populists, white nationalists, etc.). The whole thing is bizarre and fascinating to follow.

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Nathan Allebach
Nathan Allebach

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