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We need to start referring to our interlocutors as "liberal extremists"
Well, it wouldn't be far off.
It's completely true!
Rhetorically, liberalism is positioned between socialism and fascism on a continuous spectrum, but in reality these are all completely distinct ideologies with some areas of overlapping features.
Extremism is mostly a rough measure of how likely you will concede ideological ground in favor of pragmatic considerations.
Liberals are extremists with regards to "rule of law" as they will never support circumventing this to overthrow the ruling class, knowing full well that their system is incapable of enforcing rule of law on the ruling class or guaranteeing civil rights against the interests of the ruling class.
It would make the libs so mad because “the extremes on both sides are the real problem”.
They would hate to be labeled as anything other than “average voter”.