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I don't disagree, but what's interesting is even just last year or perhaps the year before the view was that the left is fundamentally a collection of different interest groups. They've always been perceived as being more fragmented, which is to some extent a necessary function of the fact that they commit so passionately to given causes, which themselves are typically focused on a given group. Especially because those causes usually compete to some extent for primacy within a hierarchy of suffering, the end goal being which group suffers and experiences prejudice the most.
But to some extent your comment is what I'm talking about. I don't think that description is inaccurate, but I'm skeptical that it tells the whole story. I think intellectually there is much more cohesiveness on the right, and it the most relevant split is between the alt right and the conventional right. That also strikes me as somewhat of a progressive's conception of the right, in that it frames the primary binding force of each segment of the right as the perception that they are being targeted by the right. That glosses over the true character of the right in the way I'm suggesting Reuters and Bloomberg do. It's accurate in that those groups do, generally, vehemently oppose progressives, but it's a pejorative articulation of that view, in that it frames it as necessarily conspiratorial, and implies that their view of progressives are of poor enough substance to not warrant further examination.
But, similarly, those groups you describe on the right have always been present and have coexisted in harmony to the point that they were able to operate as a unified front.
I think what’s missing here is that conservatives are, well, conservative and liberals are, well, liberal. Or to put it another way- there’s real personality difference, or at least differences in ideal personalities, which tend to strongly affect how institutions and coalition mates interact with each other to the same or greater extent as personality differences. Thus you see less infighting on the right in a lot of cases where they have less to agree on.
That sounds plausible. Can you elaborate on that?
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