it might be more of a matter of extremist attitude than ideological content: the left left is consistent in rejecting "stupidpol" (like Freddie DeBoer) and there's a sort of crusty consistency in the LW never actually being satisfied; there's plenty of videos of that centrist cipher Hillary screeching about how every institution in the US is secretly controlled by the Russkies; and nobody in any party refused to clap for a, uh, literal SS volunteer last Friday

hence my username: there's no bottom, no hope for some stopping-point; the only way is to step outside the bitter fights and try to understand the terms they're fighting on

horshoe theory still allows people to make a golden-mean fallacy: just add up Enver Hoxha and Jose Lopez Rega's positions, and divide by two