When will people get that "left" and "right" are RELATIVE TERMS, and EVERYONE thinks they're in the middle?
"A leftist in the White House" means "somebody whose politics are to the left of mine". That's ALL it means.
Also, when will people get that liberal/conservative is one spectrum, and libertarian/authoritarian is ENTIRELY another spectrum. NOT related. There are liberal libertarians. There are authoritarian liberals. One is the X axis and the other is the Y axis. To collapse them onto a single axis is inaccurate and probably comes from an attempt to invest the political opposition with dangers Otherness.
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