Bannon sees Butts as a sort of left-wing version of himself.
ON THE eve of his party's annual conference, which began on September 18th, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, insisted that the Liberal Democrats had no future as "a sort of left-wing conscience of the Labour Party".
Insouciance about deficits is in fashion among Democrats, too, including some who have embraced a dubious new concept known as "modern monetary theory," a sort of left-wing analog to supply-side that holds, essentially, that the United States can engage in unlimited deficit spending financed by the Federal Reserve.
As a sort of left-wing libertarian with an acid tongue, Gore had a habit of getting into feuds with people, institutions, and even countries.
As a sort of left-wing libertarian with an acid tongue, Gore had a habit of getting into feuds with people, institutions and even countries.
Perhaps some people are also turned off by the radical nature of many demonstrations, with all sorts of left-wing causes — Cuba, Venezuela, Palestinian statehood, cries of "Free Mumia" — typically getting tossed into the mix.
This is the hyper-conspiracist viewpoint in which Obama -- whose drone strike kill program has relentlessly eliminated so many Muslim radicals, and some unfortunate enough to be in their vicinity, as to ignite a backlash -- is actually a "Manchurian Candidate" sort of left-wing closet Islamist appeaser of the global jihadist conspiracy.
It was not until the cold war that Americanism became the exclusive property of the right, particularly when the House Committee on Un-American Activities made "un-Americanism" a synonym for every sort of left-wing activity.
Not only does Mr. Frank arbitrarily cherry-pick illustrations that support his thesis — much the way conservatives arbitrarily cherry-pick illustrations to support their attacks on liberals — but his vitriolic denunciations of capitalism and free markets also make him sound like a parody of the sort of left-wing "socialist" agitator that the right loves to hate.
This sort of left-wing whataboutism was probably inevitable, but, well, what about it?
Their party coasted on protest votes for years, latterly pretending to be some sort of left-wing conscience for Labour.
