A couple of weeks ago, a clip from a YouTube video titled “1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives” started circulating on social media. In it, the British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan debates a wide-eyed, snarling man named Connor, in what appears to be a windowless warehouse. A group of people form a ring around them, bright-red flags twitching in their hands. Hasan asks whether Connor believes in democracy. No, Connor replies—he prefers autocracy, identifies as a fascist, idolizes General Francisco Franco , and believes free speech should be abolished after a Catholic nationalist ethnostate is actualized. “I frankly don’t care being called a Nazi,” he says. After a bit of back and forth, Hasan, usually a relentless debater, stares at Connor in disbelief and says, “I don’t deb

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