Well I don't know what to label Biden as he won on promising unity, healing, and not being Trump. Yet since day one everything he does just keeps pissing off conservatives and centrists. That hasn't promoted any type of healing or Unity just more division.
Well, him pissing off conservatives isn't really surprising is it? I mean when's the last time mainstream conservative pundits had
anything positive to say about a Democratic president? They're going to complain about anything he does because he's got a D next to his name. They're partisan hacks.
Take the ACA for ex. An insurance mandate system is not a leftist healthcare plan. We want to abolish private for-profit health insurance, not force citizens to purchase give them money for inadequate policies. Insurance mandate was originally advocated for by the Heritage Foundation, Milton Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, and Mitt Romney. Really the only thing remotely leftist about ACA was medicaid expansion, but state govt. had to do that. Yet basically every Republican opposed it anyway, because it became "Obamacare".
Republicans didn't give Bill Clinton credit for all the conservative policies he signed into law like NAFTA, the crime bill, welfare reform, etc.
Well right & left politics mean something different to Europeans. When we say far left in America it's usually the socialist progressive block and it's growing young voter base.
Example being AOC, the squad, and Bernie Sanders are the best examples.
We don't mean Fascists and Communists.
Sure when it comes to politicians those are the closest things we have to leftists in government.. though they'd probably be better described as "Social Democrats" than Socialists and IMO it's debatable how committed most of them are to the policies they claim to support.
Though I think it's more useful to think of political spectrum in a square than a line:
I don't know what label I'd assign to myself exactly, but I'm definitely somewhere in the lower left.
Ironically if Bernie had become President I think most leftists probably would've been pretty disappointed with him but liberals / centrists might've loved him. He was still a compromise for us on a some issues. For example, His foreign policy record isn't great, while he opposed the Iraq War in general he's supported drone strikes and US imperialism.