Scratch someone who says “I used to be progressive but the left’s support for (insert XYZ anti-oppressive struggle) has really pushed me to the right!!” And u will usually find someone who was never actually progressive in the first place!!!!!!

Exactly 💯%

But they sure believed they were!

This is the correct take. Push people like that and they always fall to the Right.

There used to be a clever shorthand dunk for this fabulist "used to be left but after ... now I'm right" on reddit but I can't find it. Anyone?

It’s often stated as “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.”