There are few things in life more tedious than assigning boundaries to fundamentally ill-defined concepts. Either terms are used to divide things that cannot be divided (“No, no, that is reddish-purple and clearly not purplish-red!”) or are used to combine groups while ignoring any differences (Republicans? Democrats? just “Washington insiders”). Arguing over the terms is fundamentally unsatisfying: it rarely affects the underlying phenomena.
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