That sounds suspiciously a lot like how Neo-Conservatives interact with their negative or anti-politics.

Literally just listed to a podcast today about Phyllis Schlafly and her involvement in the rise of the modern far-right, Qanon type of conservative that helped trump come into power. Her whole purpose, in her mind, was to be soo Anti-Communist that she spun and re-branded anything considered even remotely progressive, or anti-nuclear family as being communist and tried to put a stop to it.

With this type of rhetoric we're already too progressive, so being regressive and against anything libs are doing is the only way to fight the threat of communism.

We can thank her in large part to the election of Trump