Jonathan Haidt: Authoritarians on the Far Right Attracted to Neo-Nazism Are an Incredible Danger to Our Country

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HAIDT: “We easily think about a single dimension of politics. And so, you know, is he talking the far left versus the moderate left? If the far left wants economic mobility and equality, is that Jacobinism? No, not at all. It’s not a straight line. America is composed mostly of fairly moderate people on the left and the right. And then there have always extremists, there have always been people who are radicals who want to tear things down. America and the American Revolution was a much more pragmatic revolution, unlike the French Revolution, which was a Jacobin revolution, very violent. So it’s the sort of the authortarians on the far right who are attracted to even the neo-Nazism and militias. Those are an incredible danger to our country. On the far left, it’s not people based on their policies, it’s people who think they’re so sure they’re right, they don’t care about due process. They will not listen to counter-evidence.”