they are committed to supporting an ideology that bears a close resemblance to the one from which I barely escaped: leftism.
You barely escaped leftism? Come right the f on, many many many citations needed if you want us to conflate a ruthless dictatorship which *you yourself described* with an american political movement *you yourself described* as virtually indistiguishable from its counterpart. This again smacks of narcissism, the way that simply throwing out statements should be enough to make them true. It's not.
