I came across this video which explains the progressive view of internet politics from their side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g
It goes into who they view as "alt-right", what they think their opponents are saying and how they think the online world contributes to it all. Covers everything from Jordan Peterson, to Charlottesville, to nazis infiltrating gaming/anime/etc. It also has some hilarious quotes like, "There's a joke on the internet that nerds only perceive two races: white and political".
One of the central themes I got implicitly was that everything not progressive is Nazism. "Not-liberal", "alt-right", and "nazi" are used interchangeably. There's this strange argument that "Nazis are bad" is not a political statement since everyone agrees and that therefore "Nazis are good" is also not a political statement. This combined with the marketplace of ideas provides cover for Nazis to propagate their ideas.
At 18:08, he proposes an onion as a metaphor for the "alt-right". Each layer represents a red pill until a final red pill at the centre, which might be about Jews. He then says that number and order of these pills might vary. It seems like he's really trying to force the metaphor to frame anyone with non-progressive ideas as part of a heirarchy of forbidden ideas which culminates in anti-semitism.
The video lists 14 possible exits from the "cis het white male" centered world but my favorite is the last: "He may revisit an old belief system such as religion, social justice, or a really wholesome fandom (Steven Universe)".
Generally, my autoplay leads to communists like Slavoj Zizek that I just ignore, but i guess it's fun to see what the other side says too. I was frequently surprised to see how often this video validated my stereotypes of progressives. Anyways, 2/10 check it out for a laugh.
What you're seeing is widespread systematic adoption of fallacies.
My personal pet peeve is the immigration "debate".
Some conservatives express a desire to reduce immigration - not eliminate it or reverse it, but simply reduce it. Other conservatives want to leave immigration largely untouched. A few RINOs even call for increased immigration.
Most democrats, by contrast, want to open the floodgates.
Now take a staunch white nationalist. He seeks a literal white ethnostate, but even the most deluded turbo racist knows that there's zero chance his worldview will triumph in a free marketplace of ideas. So what does he do? He votes for the lesser of two "evils" according to his beliefs. In this case, that happens to be the republican - even when that republican technically favors increased immigration!
So you have a bigoted white nationalist voting for increased immigration, but the democrats will still smear that republican as the "white nationalist" candidate. In this game, the only way to avoid the white nationalist smear is to support mass immigration. Think about that: you can't hold a moderate or even slightly positive view of immigration as a republican without being tarred as a white supremacist. No, you must adopt the democrat position of essentially open borders if you want to avoid the smear - and that's only regarding immigration.
Truth is democrats will use the exact same tactic to force conservatives to adopt leftist positions on every issue. This has been going on for decades now. It doesn't matter if your ideas are good or bad. All that matters is the wrong sort of people support you - even if they only see you as a bulwark against someone worse rather than a legitimate solution to their concerns.
This is why Conservatism needs to be abandoned in favor of something with more teeth. The Right needs a party that's going to tell the Left to get fucked and then proceeds to undo all their evil.