[deogeo]

I find that reducing politics to a one-dimensional left-right is unproductive, and leads to people arguing past each-other.

E.g. you will pick one property by which Republicans/Fox News aren't right wing, while your counterpart will pick one by which they are. Without saying which property you picked to represent right-wing-ness, you/your counterpart will be baffled as to how you/they could possibly believe Republicans/Fox News are/aren't right wing.

[brighter2morrow]

I agree, but I was trying to simplify for someone who said "they have a rudimentary understanding". There's many distinctions to make: on the right there's paleoconservatives, neo conservatives, right-leaning libertarians, nationalists, right-leaning populists, fascists, and classical liberals. On the left there are social liberals, democratic socialists, left-leaning populists, left-leaning libertarians, socialists, anarchists, and neoliberals. What I see overall is a coalition of anarchists and neoconservatives to pressure neoliberals and libertarians to deplatform all groups on the right besides the neoconservatives.