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do former leftists turn right because they were always bad or because the left was? yes

Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet wrote an article that is burning up my corner of the internet today. It’s pretty good, I thought. It’s basically one of those “Why is this formerly leftish person now a rightish one” pieces, and examines several models and theories that explain these sorts of conversions. Some of these figures may be edgelords whose face f…