US Democrats are not leftists

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64531618

Id say biden is center and bernie is left. Bidens policies were often more left than obamas. But its also hard to but them on the same scale that was made for european politics. Biden actually had a few policies which msde trans peoples lifes better while on other fronts supporting policies that would be pretty far right in europe. Europe is generally more economic left while the us is maybe more left socially but idk its quite complicated. Also mamdani isnt on this but same with him. Id say hes center left. Definitely not full left or how trump likes to call him a radical leftist.
he’s center-left in the context of american politics. his policy positions would basically be in alignment with Germany’s FDP which is centre-right

In some respects. The FDP would never subsidize green technologies on such a scale though.

“We have to be open to all technologies, so strategically advancing those that make sense and aren’t scams would lead to an evil planned economy!”

funny thing is, it wasn’t even all that subsidized

some grants and a tax break, the next administration eliminated that practically overnight