(Internet slang, politics) A political theory, sometimes suggested by far-left activists, which asserts that centrists and the far right are politically allied.
I don't quite understand what the fish hook theory is supposed to say. Are centrists the same as the far right, but the moderate right is something else? That makes no sense.
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