"That's a fair question...at the moment, it's someone who is outwardly expressing frustration that the entire democratic party doesn't lean as far to the left as they are."
See, this is where you've fallen victim to the rhetoric and now you're mindlessly reciting the liturgy.
The Democrat party isn't even moderately left.
They're Eisenhower Republicans, who like you, don't think girls should be required to have their -------- inspected by the State before playing school sports.
Now you might say the existence of taxes is a left wing idea. Or maybe that raising them is left wing, only leftists could ever raise taxes.
Somehow, you've goy yourself thinking that the fiduciary responsibility demonstrated by paying down our debts by putting our tax rates back where they were before we went into debt isn't a centrist or even fiscally conservative idea.
I don't know how we got onto Eisenhower Republicans and I don't care, but there's no relationship to that what we're talking about now. There is a 0% chance that Eisenhower Republicans would've imagined we would be discussing what's a boy versus what's a girl.
Deflecting to Eisenhower Republicans is just another way of conceding the point entirely to me