The current Left is almost wholly aligned with Globalism these days. It doesn't need to be and hasn't always been in the past. But the current Left / Globalist de facto alliance makes support for Islam (itself a globalist doctrine) a logical outcome. Plus there's a lot of money and support that comes with getting in bed with Turkish imams, etc. The goal of the Far Left is power. Fascism has always been an ideology of pragmatism. There's a globalist v. nationalist split in the Right as well but in the Right the nationalists are in the majority though perhaps not in control (see Trump's support base vs. the neocon-Zionist leadership in the Republican party and its talking heads). But in the Left it's overwhelmingly globalist and I can't remember the last time I had a real conversation with a non-globalist Leftists. Maybe a year ago at least. They're like hen's teeth.
Because globalism has catapulted the majority of the planet out of abject poverty, no one is going to argue against it after that except bigots who thought it was only for globalism for rich people.
So it’s no surprise that the far left think it’s cool now, as ideas of nationalism make little sense in that sphere anyway. (Ignoring the fact that’s nationalism is a ‘leftist’ idea in its basic form, putting a largely arbitrary group identity above the individual as a whole is not liberty in any stretch working inside the Americans silly unidirectional politics)
I think a lot of people who think that they’re right wing are only appearing as such because they’re picking and choosing things they ‘feel’ belongs and whatever fits the current argument they’re having. There’s also the peer pressure argument, that people are only saying they believe in things publicly because it falsely makes them aligned with their friend group (which is honestly ******* sad).
The sunk social cost of reaffirming things they don’t actually believe in surely becomes impossible to reconcile. The only way out is to abandon everything they know or start believing in it.
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