Fear of total domination overrides left-right distinctions as a political yardstick.

Evidence

Thus the fear of concentration camps and the resulting insight into the nature of total domination might serve to invalidate all obsolete political differentiations from right to left and to introduce beside and above them the politically most important yardstick for judging events in our time, namely: whether they serve totalitarian domination or not. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 988

Categorization

• DEFINE: Arendt’s proposed yardstick for judging political events: does it serve totalitarian domination or not — a portable criterion for subsequent political-theory readings.
• XREF: connects to: Fear of organizational abuse paralyzed the left into ceding power to enemies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 905