I take exception to the portrayal of Mother Jones as "far left" or even of the existence of much of a far left in the US. This is a tactic of the overwhelmingly

I take exception to the portrayal of Mother Jones as "far left" or even of the existence of much of a far left in the US. This is a tactic of the overwhelmingly rightist attitude in the US to portray everything as "both sides", trying to find an equivalence between the nationalist and xenophobic fearmongering of Newsmax or Breitbart and the "radical antifa left" of publications like Mother Jones that advocate for workers' rights. The fear-based rhetoric of Newsmax and Breitbart needs an opposite and equal villain, someone to really point the finger at say, see, it's them, they're the real baddies! But this opposite and equal villain doesn't exist. Workers' rights and unions are pretty basic concepts in most western countries; the US is one of the exceptions where such things are commonly vilified. Worse, portraying both of these two sides of American politics as opposite and equal leads to more moderate people talking about false middle grounds. Example: "maybe we shouldn't put kids in cages but we don't want wild open borders that allows every Mexican criminal to come in! So, we still should be tough on immigration, but not that tough!" This apparent "middle ground" ends up being just more of the same fear-based rhetoric of xenophobia.