That’s not surprising. Your average Democrat is a “liberal”. The Democratic Party is center or (arguably) center right, and that is born out in the political vi

That’s not surprising. Your average Democrat is a “liberal”. The Democratic Party is center or (arguably) center right, and that is born out in the political views of the average member of the party. They have been trained to think that left labor reforms would be a disaster for the country by the media. There is no truly left wing party in the US with any significant political power. Since the Democrats are not “the right” they must therefore be “the left”, which is how they’re referred to by essentially all media. This is a useful rhetorical maneuver because it paints left wing policies that most any rational person in Europe would view as reasonable as completely nuts because they’re so far out of the mainstream spectrum of discourse. See the Sanders campaign’s coverage on NPR for an example of liberal media going to town on a left wing candidate. Whenever I talk to someone from Europe about this they find this whole situation totally baffling (“why didn’t the democrats support Sanders? He’s a reasonable left wing candidate”).