▲ 542 ▼ Trump refuses to meet ‘Radical Left Democrats’ Schumer and Jeffries to avert shutdown (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/news@lemmy.world 148 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Joeffect@lemmy.world -14 points 10 months ago (2 children) You're not radical or left enough to have gone all the way around to being extremely right... it's like a circle... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* Horseshoe theory is bullshit. The original spectrum is based on seating arrangements of the French ruling body after the revolution. Maybe that's not a good model to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child) No it's not. The political spectrum is two-dimensional not one dimensional. You've got radical left and radical right on one axis and then you've got authorian and libertarian on the other axis. Their can be, and has been, authoritarian left wing leaders. Trump is right and up. They've gone left and up, they haven't gone in a circle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago It was a joke permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* Horseshoe theory is bullshit. The original spectrum is based on seating arrangements of the French ruling body after the revolution. Maybe that's not a good model to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child) No it's not. The political spectrum is two-dimensional not one dimensional. You've got radical left and radical right on one axis and then you've got authorian and libertarian on the other axis. Their can be, and has been, authoritarian left wing leaders. Trump is right and up. They've gone left and up, they haven't gone in a circle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago It was a joke permalink fedilink source parent