Progressive causes drop an issue once the conspiratorial right adopts it

Evidence

It is as if when something becomes an issue in the Mirror World, it automatically ceases to matter everywhere else. This has happened on so many issues that I sometimes feel as if we are tethered to each other as reverse marionettes: their arm goes up, ours goes down. We kick, they hug. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 393

Categorization

• DEFINE: Klein names the reverse-marionette dynamic — the Mirror World’s adoption of an issue causes mainstream/progressive abandonment of it — a compact articulation of the mirroring thesis central to this chapter.
• SEED: Essay angle: cataloging concrete issues (masks, vaccines, lockdowns, even social justice language) where right-wing adoption triggered progressive retreat — the ‘reverse marionette’ as an analytic device.
• XREF: connects to: Russiagate drove the left to embrace the very intelligence agencies it distrusted — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 946; Reactionaries act pro-actively while progressives stay reactive — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1697