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So, You Want to Leave the Left?

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Ben Sixsmith
Dec 18, 2023
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Reading an essay in the left-wing In These Times magazine about left-wingers who have drifted rightwards was a bit like listening to a man trying to explain how his girlfriend left him when he’s so kind and handsome. There’s no element of self-reflection — no questioning of censoriousness, or hysteria, or authoritarianism.

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