C4ppy Copernican

I'm saying that no, the right is not also "forgetful" like the left is. The right actually does have a different modus operandi than the left, including how it evolves in its positions and "remembers" the positions it's passed through. "Rival schools of thought" exist on the right. They have separate if overlapping organs and stars and these openly fight with each other. Libertarians vs social cons vs maga nationalists, etc. If you find your attitude about immigration makes people in maga circles angry, you can go to the libertarians or to the churches. It's all formalized and institutionalized, and on the right there is actually a shared sense of the geneology of these various fights. The left, by contrast, moves from issue to issue via "consensus drift." Arguments are not formalized and actually people who bring up anything against the consensus of the moment get punished with the insults of the moment ("white nationalist!" "neocon!" "pedo!"). People "remember" (erroneously) that "these are the things we have always believed" which of course couldnt possibly be true with something like the trans issue or "COVID zero" politics--but that's what people "remember" anyway. It's not like there's a leftist organ or school of thought which thinks Gaza is much more important than climate, but another, rival organ or school of thought which thinks the reverse. Instead, there is a drifting consensus, a shared "feel" for when it's time to move from one issue to another; in turn, there is a lack of mnemonic interest in previously stated priorities.