"My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist."

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I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

— John Avlon