Two short articles from Reason and The Weekly Standard:
Authoritarians to the Left and Right
The Nation and the Nazis
Imagine a line with a sliding indicator. On one end is Marxism and Antifa; on the other is Fascism and Alt-Right. Or, call it Black Lives Matter vs Stormfront.
Your job is to slide the indicator along this continuum to your preferred balance between these choices of extreme left and extreme right. Possibly, you choose the center.
What choice are you actually making? The choice of which statist minutiae you prefer.
Sliding the indicator to the center does not minimize your agreement with authoritarian policies. It indicates nothing about how much power you grant the State, that’s a constant. It means the continuum is wrong, so the choice is false.
Here’s the way the political spectrum really works:
Looking at it by group:
Update 2:40PM
See also.
Of Course the Alt-Right Is Against Capitalism