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[–] Pipoca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Leftist" means very different things to different people. It's not a very well-defined term, and really never has been.

Some people will insist that leftist means socialist, and that Nordic-style Social Democrats are actually right wing because Social Democracy is capitalist and anything that involves private ownership of the means of production is right wing.

Others will insist that somehow CNN is the "Communist News Network", and that anyone left of Trump is a leftist.

So the better question is really what they mean. Did they go from being a college communist to a Social Democrat, or from a Joe Manchin supporter to wanting Charlie Baker to run?