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I think left-wing sadism is easily overlooked when making the comparison because it is comparatively less physical than right-wing sadism. Right-wingers (in their modern US incarnation) revel in seeing their outgroup and its avatars deported, imprisoned and beaten; left-wingers (in their modern US incarnation) instead want to see theirs humiliated, smeared, robbed of their culture and symbols and denied even the words to lament it. It is hard to see things like the famous "gamers are over" blitz in gaming media, or the myriad of remakes and sequels of beloved retro franchises with LGBT characters of color and subversions of the original message, or the actual outgroup avatar humiliation conga that was the Joker sequel, or all the teardowns of statues and removals of names, as being motivated by anything other than a sadistic impulse - confirmed then beyond any doubt by the volume of "lol incel tears" posts that the backlash inevitably attracts.
This seems plausible to me. Publicizing the molten head of Robert Lee seems like so obviously a bad idea, but was perceived as a celebratory image by those doing the publishing.
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Which makes it less legible and more work to positively identify much less root out (finely honed through 200,000 years of human natural selection), and people are lazy.
Right-wing/male sadism is obvious when it occurs, is more easily resisted physically, and is a lot more individual given that it generally takes the physical presence of a man to inflict; left-wing/female sadism is generally completely deniable, generally very far from the physical, and is conducted remotely (when it involves the physical, it generally takes the form of "I'm going to get my boyfriend to assault you").
Dealing with the former on a case-by-case basis, and the latter based on suppressing the entire group, is effective but quite wasteful- that's why up until the early 20th century, that was the norm- but with technology enabling left-wing sadism (and its perpetrators) to let them get away with much more bad behavior relative to right-wing sadism that's no longer generally an option.
All horseshoe theory does is point out that, at the end of the day, it's sadism/group selfishness driving each. Growing the pie is hard work.
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