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"In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, closely resemble each other, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together"
What'd they get wrong, exactly?
That US politics has screwed up definitions of left and right, making the cartoon meaningless when applied to it.
Okay, I'm Canadian, but let's play ball:
Republicans (right-wing) want to ban abortion.
Democrats (*left-wing) want to not ban abortion.
What's the Centrist solution here? Is it... some bans on abortion by any chance?
(*I'm aware they're basically right-of-centre at this point, but not wanting to ban abortion is a 'left' stance.)
Centrism does not mean coming up with a middle-ground solution for all issues. It could be taking a left-leaning stance on one issue, and right-leaning on another.
Exactly: freedom for some, genocide for others.