Agreed! And fwiw I’m “a registered Democrat who votes left in the primaries but down the Democrat line in the general election” too, I just don’t use the term “leftist” because, well, I don’t know what it means to people around me. That is, it changes depending on social context I guess.

Anyway, thanks for spelling it out, I think if we could get this in some kind of metaphorical Sidebar for progressives we’d get more traction.