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"Horseshoe theory" is the idea that I don't really care if I'm being killed by Hitler or Mao if I'm being killed.
Death by centrist is impersonal. It's your fault for not hustling hard enough for AC.
I personally care a lot more about what the state suppresses, how it does it, for whom it does it, against whom it does it, why it does it, with how much public support it does it and what the effect of it is, rather than some simplistic black-and-white view that merely cares about whether a state does things or not.