
It depends. Both are rooted in authoritarianism and can carry Nazi beliefs. I’ve had the unfortunate experience of talking to Neo-Nazis who were leftists. Also, you’ve taken the argument from left and right wing to FAR left and FAR right, which is a different thing entirely. TPUSA is a very moderate and basic right-leaning group. There will always be hidden crazies like how we have literal pedophiles walking around us everyday, but a lot of TPUSA members are just average joe college students.
Also, I know TPUSA members, even some who aren’t white. They’re not white supremacists. Again, Charlie Kirk is Charlie Kirk, everyone else is their own person. They’re looking for a place to have civil discourse and peaceful interactions so our country doesn’t fall apart from division. And god forbid they try to create community on campus, especially for students who don’t consider themselves left-wing
Y’all aren’t be persecuted just because your receive criticism from others. If you wanna be a political group people will criticize your politics & ideologies. If you can’t handle being called a white supremacist, don’t make it your brand to have ass takes on politics that promote white supremacy & christian nationalism.
The chapter at my campus promotes very basic things, so I don’t know which white supremacists and Christian nationalists you’re talking about. You might just be projecting viral clips of Charlie Kirk onto every person in the org. Of course, people will criticize, which isn’t the problem. The problem is assuming the opinions of people you don’t know. Politics is very nuanced. I’m a right winger and am more freedom loving than the Republican Party claims to be, which is why I’m an independent.
(2) Plenty of right wingers and even Christians aren’t like these viral videos. I know it’s hard to separate. We see that with the trans community and plenty of other groups of people having the whole group attacked because of the actions of the extremists. It wouldn’t be fair to judge everyone on actions they didn’t commit.
…again, I have a life. I had things to do that did not require being on my phone responding to someone lumping people like myself and those I care about into extremist categories. I say it’s fairly equal, because it’s assumed someone far left is incapable of being a fascist when this isn’t true at all. Something they and the far right can align on is authoritarianism, that being where the government has a strong control over its people, but the kicker about the far right is that I would (1)
(2) infer that there are more libertarians classed as far right than there are libertarians classed as far left. That’s because libertarian socialism, which is the left’s equivalent of a right wing libertarian, still involves government control which is just a coping mechanism at that point for wanting a strong central government but also hating it at the same time. It doesn’t work, and that’s why leftists typically don’t refer to themselves as libertarians.
I’m not a Republican. This is the problem with America. It’s either Democrat or Republican. I’m a right winger who also is disappointed with the Republican Party, but TPUSA or not, I’m going to be lumped in with viral ridiculous people like Fuentes. It’s literally lose lose in politics these days 💀
Neo-nazism, fascism with another name and perhaps a few add-ons which is arguable, is an authoritarian ideology, something that is possible both on the left and right. Difference is that far right people can be classed as libertarians, far right but not at all endorsing authoritarianism. A different flavor of extreme but usually not in a bad way.
I try to avoid having someone limit my responses to a one word response, because it doesn’t allow freedom for elaboration. It’s just a really crappy debate mechanism that’s become more popular to try and speak for the person or strawman. I wanted to say my piece before the rest so we could have a real convo about it and not a “gotcha!” based off an overly simplified response.
That still doesn’t address my comment. There’s a clear venn diagram between nazis/racists and “right wingers” i.e. republicans. I was referring to the fact that the group chat that was leaked not long ago in addition to this post does not paint a pretty picture for the morals republicans have. That’s all.
“neo nazism is possible on both sides” lmao you literally don’t know what any words you use mean do you? far right libertarians aren’t bad? their entire ideology was artificially manufactured so that billionaires could rape the global south harder (and so that those billionaires could rape literally kids)