My favorite hangout in Paris and an observation about politics that Jean-Pierre Faye made long ago have the same name: “horseshoe.”
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I haven’t taken surveys but I’m not convinced the seating of clients in this hemicycle reflects any particular ideological landscape.
But I would add in supplement to Faye’s observation that an appetite for violent overthrow may be the main thing that unites the supposedly opposite ends of the horseshoe.