So much of American political language is controlled by the right wing. They want you to call them conservative because there is credibility in that name, yet they are far closer to Dark Enlightenment ideas.
The scary thing for me is that if we continue to refer to reactionaries as conservative then the Dark enlightenment may also gain credibility, and looking at the far right marches I’d say they already have too much of that.
The American political system is way out of alignment, the US Overton Window is skewed to the authoritarian right by a long way. Smash that Overton Window, see what the rest of the world sees, and fix the problem.
