Robert PickeringIf the Pope is now considered part of the radical left, I think we need to look at just how far the overton window has moved.
Frans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻@robertpi Moved? It was stretched. The left border is pushed further to the left but with little success. The right border almost leaves the Solar System.
U.Lancier@apenkop @robertpi I can't see a stretch on the left if you omit the claims of the far right propaganda. Someone like NY's Mamdani is considered a moderate left in most of Europe's democracies.
It is not too far in the past that the people of the US would consider all democratic (the system, not the party) positions as center and deem all positions, that were in favor of denying some people the right to vote, or even human rights as extremist and decidedly un-American.
About far right: To even ask whether US-born are citizens (and even more absurd: native Americans!) was off any chart of being a valid question to US justice before the Trump-era.
Hendrik WeimerThere is considerable evidence that the Democratic party has shifted significantly to the left of the median voter on social issues: https://www.ft.com/content/73a1836d-0faa-4c84-b973-554e2ca3a227
And concerning birthright citizenship, the situation also seems to be a bit more complex: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/birthright-citizenship-support.html
If you don't want to use the common workarounds, you can find a recycled version here: https://quantus.substack.com/p/the-leftward-shift-in-the-democratic
There has definitely been a stretch on the left as well, and it's not limited to party activists.
The data is from the GSS, of which the 2024 version has been released in the meantime: https://gss.norc.org/
anyGould@hweimer Which leads to the next gotcha - even the polling in the US is partisan. Quantus Insights, for instance, leans right - their owner also runs "I Love My Freedom", purveyors of merch with such slogans as "Are you American or a Democrat".
@anyGould This is not data from a Quantus poll, but recycled material from an FT article, which in turn used several different sources.
@hweimer Fair, but FT isn't exactly my first choice for unbiased media either. So this is data, sifted by a conservative/right source, further sifted by an even further-right wing US source. (As a 🇨🇦 I get lots of practice in checking US media sources - the cherrypicking, if not outright astroturfing is very real.)
@anyGould For some of the plots, the primary source is the General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago: https://gss.norc.org/
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