Yup, the GOP used to be center-right with a fringe of radicals and propped up numerically by the religious right. Now the radicals are center, but they need the support of the religious right to rule. And that's created this odd current situation where the Democrats have been left "holding the bag" as the main proponents of mainstream centrism, where both the parties used to be part of that. This is where the idea that mainstream
corporate media is "leftwing" has emerged. It's complete nonsense: corporate media represents the interests of the corporate class of capitalism.
What's happened is that the right veered away from the center, so now to them being in the corporate center looks like radical leftism. So the real enemy to them should be the "corporate citizen" class who represent the wealthy elite, but they misattribute this as "leftism", so it's part of the long history of class struggle where the downtrodden class are duped about who their actual oppoents are, the richclass savior is going to save them from the evil forces of liberalism by further entrenching the power of the richclass, heh, when it's the stratified richclass society which is actually the source of their problems.
But PTTG??'s post was about an equivalent leftist movement *comparable in scope* to the Tea Party right. Not just about *some people leftist do silly shit on the internet*
Yeah this. What I would say is a fair comparison is name any specifically crazy policy advocated by a major Democratic candidate. Sanders' stuff is about as far out there as you're going to see, and every single policy he outlined is in fact considered mainstream policy in large numbers of fellow capitalist nations.