While I disagree on your other points, I agree that traditional left wing is totally dead in this country. It's been co-opted by wacko identity politics.
The politician closest to the traditional values of the left wing is ironically Trump.
It's manufactured presentation by right wing media celebs - a projection of their characters like Milo Yinnapolis, Andy Ngo and Oli London onto what they imagine the left is doing.
The right is full of loud bombastic personalities like Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Mike Cernovich, Baked Alaska, Cat Turd, Libs of Tiktok and all the plastic surgery ladened evangelical TV pastors dripping in make-up. It's just psychological projection.
> It has not been coopted by wacko identity politics.
Proceeds to quote wacko communist politics.
When I say traditional left, I don't mean far, academic, elitist left. I'm talking union, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Bernie Sanders types. Not academics who write books about the role of Cuban women in the Communist revolution.
You think "identity politics" means "communism", that "communism" means "socialism" and that "liberal" means "left"?!
Alright. We're using different dictionaries.
Sometimes Democrats are like "but I'm a woman" because their policies are otherwise indistinguishable from the Republican, ok sure. Democrats are just Republicans that wave a pride flag. If that's the claim than agreed.
The politician closest to the traditional values of the left wing is ironically Trump.