Fascism/Antifascism and related topics

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How goes the search?

Thinking about it, I don't recall ever seeing any actual "source material" mentioned (or referenced) in any news articles I've read.

All I seem to find are the stereotypical "alt right" bogeyman references which appear to have been created by intelectually dishonest "reporters" (and others) through taking the worst features of the very fringe elements of the right (or those with whom they disagree on a given topic), combining them into a caricature of "the right" and then making the further intelectually dishonest claim that if you don't agree with them on any given issue, then you are automatically "alt-right" and so obviously agree with all those beliefs with which they have associated this group.

On an aside, I've always wondered what the actual scale from left to right is, with regards to the graduations and "requirements" to be placed at each point along it...All I seem to see in the media is a person is of "the left", "alt-right", or no classification.

You can find a whole lot of people doing their "Why I left the Left/Right" or people talking about how they fell down the alt-right pipeline. There is a particular video from someone called Faraday Speaks that got a lot of attention a while back in how he talked about going from the Left and went Right in following progressively more conservative or extreme people, before realizing what he had become.

With regards to finding people who are just Right rather than far, I think that it is a common opinion that the moderately Right can recognise that they may get in trouble for saying some of their thoughts, or simply have apathy on the plights of others. And proving the apathy that someone has is a lot harder to prove without someone outright saying that they don't care.

Also, thought that it might be good to link this classic ContraPoints video on being able to recognise a fascist.