Hippie-punching 2021
A new twist on a very old right-wing smear.
A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this:
Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all of their political opponents are like that. They will call you a fasci…