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I'm not going to find it now but couple of months ago I was visiting a typical Spanish town and saw a poster announcing party organized by the Communist Party of Spain. Just some beer and music. Normal thing. No one is scared of it here.
No one is freaking out about far right parties (except in Germany). Why would we freak out about the far left?
Why shouldn't we freak out about extremist parties?
I think what I was trying to say is that people weren't really freaking out about MAGA. Sure, a lot of people did say it's a fascist movement but the media, the Democrats and I think the public in general weren't really on board. For most people it was a valid political movement. MAGA is not a dirty word like 'communist'. If the public is not freaked out about anti-democratic movement like MAGA they shouldn't be freak out about communism either.
You're wrong, they should freak out about both.
You just sound like some apologist.
We should be freaking out about far right parties, though