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In reply to the discussion: AOC: Covering up a murder is disqualifying for public leadership. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)both the the populist left and many among the anti-Democrat far left tend to have various problems with. And his support BY AA also attracted the hostility of both.
Btw, everyone should know populist movements all contain large components of social conservatives. That's how come their hard cores could support Trump or Sanders, whichever survived. Political scientists could have predicted in 2000 that a LW populist movement in 2016 would not do what was necessary to add America's black Democrats to their ranks. Too extremist in attitudes to appeal, too socially conservative to accept.
And flares of antisemitism from the far left are never a surprise. Many have a lot more in common with their fellows on the far right than the tolerant mainstream.