Schrödinger's extremist

When ideology is a flat circle, the distinction is bupkes.

The Bupkes would like to clarify some important things. Really, just one important thing.

It has come to our attention that media and political elites are struggling to define terms, most recently in regions ruled by the Teutonic Imaginary. This has caused considerable confusion among the masses. Even The Bupkes, much to our own surprise, is imperfect in this regard. So do please allow us a moment to untrap ourselves from this nomenclature trap.

You see, when a bad guy we assume is a bad guy does a bad-guy thing, it makes sense. The same is true when another bad guy we assume is a bad guy does a bad-guy thing. But what happens when a bad guy does a bad-guy thing but for a bad-guy reason normally associated with another bad guy?

Complicated!

Except it’s actually quite simple; you’re just overthinking it. You are trying to apply a difference where no difference exists. Any distinction is, in fact,

bupkes.

Any effort to create a difference is its own kind of tribalism, which the bad guys you a…