I guess the question I always have at this point is, who are these liberal extremists? Everybody wants to play bothsidesism, but it doesn't make sense.

Seriously, give me some names. Bernie Sanders? Anywhere but here he's center-left. Joe Biden is center-right. "Insane left wingers" want to raise the top tax bracket a few percent and use the money to build things. There absolutely are people who want to disband the police or believe that white people are all evil or whatever the conservative bogeyman of the week might be. But they're activists and Twitter dwellers, not in positions of actual power. The looniest, holy-shit-I-can't-believe-they-said-that conservatives have representation in Congress. For that matter, most of the GOP meets or is close to that mark, or at least kowtows to the crazies.

But the important factor is that the left is a massive hodgepodge of different people. The right is basically a monolith of white Christian conservatives. If this were Europe, the entire GOP would be the far-right extremist party and the Democrats would encompass everybody else.

This is where, if you've brought up identity politics, I point out that people who play that game hardest are actually on the right - except they're all the same identity, so it's easy for them.

There's so little variety in conservative thought, they all sing off the same sheet. I don't know what your threshold for extremism on the left is, but for all intents and purposes the right is all extreme. And that proportion matter. If you take two groups of people and one is 80% extremists and the other 20%, you can't play bothsides with that. The quantitative becomes qualitative.