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> leftist democrat party

There is no such thing in the United States. There are leftist parties (with no actual electoral success at the state or federal level), and there is a major party called the Democratif Party (which is not leftist), but there is nothing that could reasonably, even approximately, be described as a “leftist democrat party”.

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a name is just a name. In the US there are two parties so leftists fall in either one or the other. Frankly the tactics and motivations taken by the democrat party is exactly leftist: authoritarian, pro-censorship, trying to justify authoritarian takeover by claiming social progress.

> In the US there are two parties so leftists fall in either one or the other

No, in the US there are dozens (hundreds, IIRC) of parties, and leftists mostly don't fall in either of the major two, when they are in a party at all.

The 2020 democrat party falls under leftist authoritarian classification, a thin veneer of civil rights and progressive-ism on top of a thick marxist-lenenist regime shadowing the Chinese communist party's single party authoritarianism. It hates free speech, embraces censorship across the web and media, monitors and tracks people through control of big tech like apple and google, and seeks political control of corporations using the guise of social and racial activism. You can say it is not "leftist," but it certainly pretends to be.

> embraces censorship across the web and media, monitors and tracks people through control

This is certainly _both_ parties. Authoritarianism is a strong classification for both the left and right parties.

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