Why Blaming the Left is Intellectually Lazy

Abbey Arletto
6 min readNov 9, 2020

Democrats repeat self-own

The predictable argument being made right now by Democratic Party intelligentsia, never-Trump Republicans and the Centrist media commentariat, is that it’s somehow the Left’s fault Democrats suffered down-ballot losses in the 2020 election. If only no one had ever mentioned defunding the police, Black Lives, the Green New Deal, socialized medicine, higher minimum…

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Abbey Arletto

Political scientist, activist and freelance writer from Maine.