Has the right gone further right, or moved more toward the middle between 2019 and now?
If the right (circa 2025) is fracturing over the "Fuentes Factor", and the circa-2025 is the most extreme version of "the right" we've ever had, then this kind of stuff would've been even more fracturing back in 2019 by that reasoning, correct?
That would be logical conclusion, right?
If the 2025 version of the right is the "most right-wing that the right has ever been, bordering on fascism" as some have said, and half of them are like "whoa, what's the deal with this Fuentes dude saying the holocaust didn't happen!?!?, I don't know if I want to be a part of this"
Wouldn't that reaction be even more pronounced among the 2019 right, who were a little less far-right?
I think my reasoning is rock solid on this.
Social media is a major driver in politics.
The excesses of either faction have the effect of being off-putting to a lot of people.
The left went out of their way to silence and hide the excesses of the right on social media on the basis of "mean words could hurt peoples' feelings", while the excesses of the left were amplified and put at the top of everyone's Twitter feed.
From a Democratic strategy perspective, this picture sums it up...
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If I was running for office, and the Westboro Baptist Church was supporting my opponent, and the Church of Scientology was supporting me, and my supporters pulled levers to get FB, YT, and Twitter to suppress Westboro posts, and amplify Scientology posts, that'd be a pretty stupid move (strategically), right? -- Despite the fact that morally speaking, the Westboro Baptist Church is more immoral than the Scientologists becomes irrelevant at that point, as the general public is only going to be made aware of the "crazies" on my side, and not hear anything about the "crazies" (who are actually worse) supporting the other guy.