Another attempt to say the left isn't evil, it's the right
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What appears to be growing extremism on the right is actually only the right reorienting itself to its original position after having ceded so much ground to the left. As you said, it's a reaction to the ever increasing extremism of the left. The right's mistake, which I think people are now realizing, was in ever attempting to compromise with the left. Because of the insatiable nature of the left, compromise and fence straddling are simply not sustainable. As in the case of gay marriage, we've learned that when you give a leftist an inch, they will invariably try to take a mile. Comparatively speaking, the right, having fixed beliefs, is by nature static, whereas the left, having no fixed beliefs, must remain ever in motion. In consequence, the left can never be satisfied, and so compromise is useless. The left derives pleasure from the process of the implementation of ever changing ideas, of which there can be no end, whereas the right derives satisfaction from the result of carrying fixed ideas to their logical conclusions.
The timeline is long enough that both this is true and for many people that "original position" was never in their lifetime so its fair to say it is a huge shift to them as well.
This is something true in theory, but, like communism, manifests completely differently in reality. We can see just in this very forum that the Right is fractured among many different beliefs and even more so "what do we do with" type beliefs.
Whether that's pragmatic "we do what we need to do walk the path" beliefs, or genuinely breaking from the Right of old, we can hardly find two guys who agree on everything.
The Left doesn't have this problem because, as you said, they have no beliefs so they can just mind meld together, whereas the Right has to compromise together to stay a mass big enough to matter. In better times, we would be fighting among each other about whose belief is better but at the moment we have to bundle up to fight the horde that is the Left.