After Elizabeth Warren declined to enter the 2016 race, Sanders, by virtue of his leftist views, his energy, and his willingness to challenge Hillary Clinton, inherited Warren's position as the tribune of a reinvigorated progressive movement.
Despite his idiosyncrasies, Mr. Moretti has become a kind of Everyman to his loyal Italian audience, which knows all about his leftist sympathies, his sweet tooth and his love of sports (especially water polo).
Owing to his leftist politics, his works were banned in the interwar period, but his opinions influenced greatly the cultural and political arenas of post-World War II Yugoslavia.
In 1952, when McCarthyism was scattering and demoralising his leftist brethren, his increasingly irrational behaviour was diagnosed as a symptom of Huntington's Disease passed down from his mother.
Sennett asserts much the same but keeps his leftist credentials in his pocket.
But there will be many, many more who oppose him because of his leftist policies and his radical associations.
He won handily, but, with his leftist rhetoric and his huge support from the poorest sectors, he was not exactly the leader that the international community had envisioned when they promoted democracy and elections in Haiti.
Benn held cabinet posts in Labour Party governments in the 1970s and clung unswervingly to his leftist beliefs while his party, in opposition, moved to the center and reemerged to take power again as New Labour.
