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Oh, man. I'd never heard of horseshoe theory before but after looking it up and finding examples, it's nonsense. One example in particular states that the right doesn't want race mixing due to white genocide and the left don't due to cultural erasure. I don't believe I could find anyone that sits on the left that would ever parrot that garbage. I was just left wondering what the drive of the writer was... Are they purely trying to muddy the waters in order to validate fascists?
No, they are trying to obscure that the political spectrum is complex, but actually resembles more of a fishhook on the Western center-left and right, which is how you have supposedly "leftist progressive Democrats" comparing Russians to "orcs", in agreement with Ukrainian white nationalists.
All 'liberal' (of which the Democrats and Republicans are both followers of) ideas orbit white/western supremacy, it is the well of gravity that the fish hook encircles. Eugenics was originally advocated for by the 'Progressive' movement. Neo-liberalism was directly inspired by Italian and Japanese fascist thinkers and writers. Hitler viewed the U.S.'s treatment of the Native Americans as a blueprint for a greater Germany. American marketers were directly inspired by the propaganda campaigns by Nazi Germany. Etcetera, etcetera.
Every now and then the far right wing and far left wing will agree on something. However, this is almost always exclusivly related to an interpretation of geopolitics, where the right-wing believes something is 'based traditionalism', where as we recognize it as reactionary, but the primary contradiction that exists in the world at the moment is within western imperialism. The greater and more real class conflict undergirds it all, but right now you make solidarity where you can. If the U.S. empire can be brought to heel, it will give all kinds of leftist projects room to breathe.
Probably more to invalidate communists, but it comes out to the same either way.