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The problem is that their devotion to this anti-liberal struggle has led them to propagating positions that are completely untethered from what is happening on the Right – sophistry in defense of a premise that is utterly at odds with empirical evidence.
 
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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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To be very clear: I am not criticizing “the Left,” which doesn’t exist as a monolithic bloc. My issue is with this specific camp, and as much as they like to pretend they do, they really don’t represent “the Left.” In fact, they hate lefties who disagree with them at least as much as “the Libs.”

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Ernst Thallman and his Communists thought the bigger enemy was Weimar, rather than Hitler. He ran for President of Germany in 1932, took 10% of the vote which helped weaken Hindenburg and Von Pappen - and ended up dying in Buchenwald for his efforts.

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