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On both sides of the political spectrum, people make these errors, Rom said. So here's what to know the next time you use any of these trending terms.

Here is one version of the left-right spectrum, as described in 1975 by a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had left the conservative movement to break bread with Black Panthers and Wobblies.

The left-right divide might be a division between social identities based on class or region or race or gender, but it is certainly not a clash between different political ideas.