Playing down the right-wing danger by pathologizing its critics is a lasting tactic.

Evidence

What Hofstätter was practising was a tried and tested procedure which is popular to this day: playing down the dangers from the right, presenting the `exposers’ of such dangers as totalitarian moralists and idealists themselves, and declaring genuine reflection on this to be a private affair. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2042

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Coupling legitimate critiques with offensive traits can delegitimize an entire ideology. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1000; Accusing critics of conspiracy theorizing is a standard tactic to marginalize left power analysis — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 751

Broader Connections

• Accusing critics of conspiracy theorizing is a standard tactic to marginalize left power analysis #corroborates (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 751
• Coupling legitimate critiques with offensive traits can delegitimize an entire ideology. #exemplifies (0.75) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1000