Come on now. You have to be more honest than this. I'm a "leftist." I've been on the political Left my entire life. I dutifully went through my socialist phase as a teenager. And even then, I saw that it was ridiculous to pretend that reductionism and binary thinking weren't features of left-wing thinking too.

Racist or antiracist. Nothing in-between. Trans women are literally women or you're a transphobe. Nothing in-between. "Leftist" or far-right/alt-right/fascist. Nothing in-between. Which side of the political aisle do you think these binary worldviews are coming from?

There’s nothing conservative about the people I’m describing in the article. They’re much more likely to advocate “burning it all down” than clinging to the past. It’s time more people on the Left learned that the extremes on the far Left are capable of being just as awful as the far Right. I mean, you don’t think communists and socialists ever started any wars or pursued power?

We also need to recognise that part of the reason for the rise of populist figures like Trump and LePen and most recently Milei in Argentina is the horrendous out-of-touchness of some people on the Left. Watch it happen in Canada next. We're so, soooo bad at looking in the mirror when things aren't going our way.