He is a secular leftist, not an Islamist, but when asked if the elections were free and fair, he just laughed.
The likelihood of the leftists not being able to win an outright majority has raised the prospect of the EU's most volatile member – only recently pulled back from the brink of euro exit – being plunged, again, into political uncertainty.
"My tribe is leftists, not liberal Zionists," she said.
Outside the eclectic world of Syriza committee meetings, congresses and conventions, the radical leftists were not a force to be reckoned with.
"For the most part, the organic-farming movement comes out of a progressive, leftist movement, not a conservative one," said Alexander Gerber, the head of BÖLW, the German league of organic food producers.
Among his most prized possessions was an eighteenth-century engraving of the Anglo-Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza.10 He was a pugnacious peacenik, a leftist but not a pacifist, which Scholem would have also appreciated.
I consider myself a leftist, but not a communist or an anarchist.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I began my career at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, our publisher Barry Bingham Sr., today remembered as a generous and warm-hearted civic leader, was widely regarded as a leftist, if not a Communist.
CNBC's Larry Kudlow, an occasional Trump adviser, said that the tariffs could cause a "major calamity" and Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska said that "[y]ou'd expect a policy this bad from a leftist administration, not a supposedly Republican one".
"They're just considered a bunch of old leftists, and that is not a fair charge.
