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The reason I think think this both sides nonsense is so destructive is that is hides how off the rails conservatives have become. Modern conservativism is very dangerous. It took an already somewhat problematic ideology, took the absolute worst of it, and made it median of the movement. Then the media tells the public we should find middle ground with that.
A somewhat decent (or not complete trash) conservative would look nothing like what we see in today's GOP. The conservative right, that is driven by crony capitalism, white identity politics, religious fundamentalism, nativism, racism, hawkish foreign policy, scientific ignorance, sexism, cruelty, and general bigotry, is like three to four standard deviations away from reassembling anything reasonable.
And this is who DWalk supports.
a decent conservative should look like Joe Biden
the leftmost bound of the political spectrum in America begins at the true center of political ideology. our political discourse is warped so far to the right that Americans literally can't imagine a world in which Bernie Sanders isn't an extreme leftist because they don't even know what an extreme leftist looks like
and that was before the GOP went completely off the rails. today, anyone left of the tea party is considered a RINO. it's absolutely insane