[concordDance]

There's a few distinct axes commonly labelled "left". The Democrats are quite left on some axes (e.g. concern about racism) and less so on others (e.g. siezing the means of production).

[petesergeant]

We used to call this liberalism

[yareal]

Some of us still do, as a useful delimiter between leftist politicians vs the centrist positions held by the democrats.