Idk, he plowed a similar path to people like Gabbard where it went from left-wing anti-establishment stuff to the modern American alt-right incarnation but similar themes. There are definitely shared features.
The new cultural, Christian shtick is entirely new I will grant you.
The homophobic, Hindu Nationalist. She always had Conservative leanings but a lot of people on the left looked past it because she talked about expanding Medicare.
It was obvious in 2019 her politics were weird and yet she was still second preference to Bernie to a lot of the fringe left
There are still a non-trivial number of people on the left with a soft spot for Assad. Generally the paranoid conspiracy theorist types who are into the white helmets/Al Qaeda/OCPW false flag stuff.
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u/Beetlebob1848 Soc Dem 2d ago
Idk, he plowed a similar path to people like Gabbard where it went from left-wing anti-establishment stuff to the modern American alt-right incarnation but similar themes. There are definitely shared features.
The new cultural, Christian shtick is entirely new I will grant you.