Defining the Indefinable, Defending the Indefensible

In reference to this essay here, a reader asks:

“This may be an odd point to ask this, but how are you defining ‘leftist’? For example, are you describing a garden variety member of the Democratic party or something else?”

This is not odd at all. A call for a definition is always in order, since most disagreement is based on improperly defined terms.

Alas, I am not defining the word Leftist. I cannot. They have spent so much of their time and effort to avoid, elude, evade, and weasel out of defining themselves, that no mere mortal has any ability to find a label that can fit on them.

I do not think the movement, for which I have no satisfactory name, can be defined.

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