The difficulty for many liberals in hating their conservative counterparts is that the concept of the Big Liberal Tent is at odds with the idea of casting someone out, even if said person is a literal Nazi. This in turn manifests as disproportionate coddling of rather extreme perpectives for little gain. Eventually it gets toxic enough that people polarize, run each other down and effectively cast people out anyways with much collateral damage.
Conservatives do the same but with less handwringing, moral masturbation (Oh, but what about free speech! cried the older liberals when justifying their paralysis) and pearl clutching. Watching the GOP primary, their behavior, if done in a liberal circuit, would be inexcusable and grounds for entire blocs to refuse to work together. It's harder for liberals to play identity games because the entire liberal identity is defined as a multitude, not any appeal to authoritarian "tradition".
Conservatives do the same but with less handwringing, moral masturbation (Oh, but what about free speech! cried the older liberals when justifying their paralysis) and pearl clutching. Watching the GOP primary, their behavior, if done in a liberal circuit, would be inexcusable and grounds for entire blocs to refuse to work together. It's harder for liberals to play identity games because the entire liberal identity is defined as a multitude, not any appeal to authoritarian "tradition".
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