You'd be surprised. The left is no more unified that the right, in many ways, and members of the mainstream left have been cautioning against this derisive lab

You'd be surprised. The left is no more unified that the right, in many ways, and members of the mainstream left have been cautioning against this derisive labeling issue for quite some time now. See, for example, Rensin's "The smug style in American liberalism" linked to on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12106004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12106004