When you have been around politics for a long time, it’s fair to say that you start to notice similarities.

Political scientists have written lots about this.

Ideologues on the Right and the Left both assimilate political information emotionally, not rationally. Conservatives and liberals alike tend to look at things through a partisan lens, and not in an unbiased way. Extremists, whether Marxist or fascist, are equally resistant to evidence that contradicts their worldview.

Thus the horseshoe theory: the far Left and far Right are closer to each other than they are to the centre.

So, we give you two groups who also seem very different but act very much alike: the Quebecois pro-separatism crowd and the pro-Palestinian gang. It is striking, to me, how similarly they behave.

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