To be very clear: I am not criticizing “the Left,” which doesn’t exist as a monolithic bloc. My issue is with this specific camp, and as much as they like to pretend they do, they really don’t represent “the Left.” In fact, they hate lefties who disagree with them at least as much as “the Libs.”
I've considered myself a leftist all my life, but folks in this crowd won't engage with my arguments, preferring slander me as neolib, a shitlib, whatever. they REALLY enjoy their narcissistic ranting.
I also find the worst offenders to be straight white men who have strong disdain for any analyses that acknowledge gender or race or sexuality. Which is, in the parlance of our times, a tell.
Eventually, a "left" that strives for an authoritarianism have been resulting in some of the worst examples of how to run a country.
It feels like fundamentalism in the economically left political spectrum.