The Politics of Extremism

When we use to moderate and referring to conservative or progressive, we just mean guy I like. We're like Adam Gopnik, moderate Democrat because he seems like a smart, nice Democrat that I'd go have dinner with. So why does everybody say Donald Trump's an extreme right winger? It's his rhetoric. He uses angry rhetoric, extreme rhetoric, yes. But extreme rhetoric is an extreme policy. And the political spectrum makes you think it is. Oh, he's on the far right, then he must be in favor of all these fascist policies,. Right? Senator McCarthy was brilliant at this. This is how he got so much power was by weaponizing the political spectrum, using