>In American political discourse, any member of the Democratic Party is considered a "leftist' regardless of their beliefs or policies. As an American living i

>In American political discourse, any member of the Democratic Party is considered a "leftist' regardless of their beliefs or policies. As an American living in America, this doesn't match my experience. My impression aligns with Urban Dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Leftist https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Leftist 'Leftist: A person belonging to the political left and usually identifying with the radical, anti capitalist, or revolutionary sectors of left politics. Includes anarchists, marxists, communists, socialists, and all other explicitly radical left ideologies.' There are absolutely conservative commentators who describe all Democratic Party voters as 'leftists', just as there are left-leaning commentators who describe all Republicans as 'fascists', but these descriptions are commonly understood to be hyperbole. I think when using words like 'leftist' among non-American company, we can agree that the current Presidential adminstration doesn't fit that label. Compare the current White House policy agenda to that of Germany's political party Die Linke, translated as "The Left": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)