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Fantastic reply. Also consider the dramatic and sustained rightward slide of the Overton window over the last 40 years.
Within right-wing media spaces that window has slid in so far to the right that mentioning vaccines, public housing, or a living wage is seen as outrageous or absurd or communist, and outright white supremacy is a major plank of prominent politicians' platforms.
So when someone says "there's no room to talk about right-wing ideas," they're saying "why don't you all accept an equivalence between radical Christian nationalism and moderate democratic conservatism as they two poles of political debate?"
And the reality is that "right-wing ideas" in America are mostly fabricated or deeply bigoted. And outside of conservative media environments, they are accurately perceived that way and so are not talked about much.