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Jonah Goldberg: 2023 was the year I started believing in the horseshoe theory of politics

This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year that was. I got nothing. But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea — the horseshoe theory of political ideologies.

The term is often attributed to French author 's 1996 book "Le Siècle des idéologies" (“the century of ideologies”), but the concept is much older. It basically holds that the extreme right (“fascism”) and

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