Certainly from a mainstream political standpoint he is generally viewed as on the “left”, i.e. a progressive liberal. However, the writer is apparently using the term ‘leftists’ to mean socialists/social democrats.
His stance of Israel is really what will be the clincher for leftists, similar to Harris herself. On the plus side, they are both taking a softer line in terms of how they discuss the genocide in public, but of course neither of them would ever utter the phrase with relation to the Palestinians. There’s also a lot of doubt as to whether either of them will break from Biden’s policy of continuing to send bombs and military hardware to Israel, as both are apparently very much in the “Israel has the right to defend itself” camp.
Certainly from a mainstream political standpoint he is generally viewed as on the “left”, i.e. a progressive liberal. However, the writer is apparently using the term ‘leftists’ to mean socialists/social democrats.
His stance of Israel is really what will be the clincher for leftists, similar to Harris herself. On the plus side, they are both taking a softer line in terms of how they discuss the genocide in public, but of course neither of them would ever utter the phrase with relation to the Palestinians. There’s also a lot of doubt as to whether either of them will break from Biden’s policy of continuing to send bombs and military hardware to Israel, as both are apparently very much in the “Israel has the right to defend itself” camp.