• khannie@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Does anyone know of any examples of politicians swinging hard in the opposite direction?

    I just learned today that Hitler was a lefty in his early days. True story.

    He was always anti-Semitic though. That wasn’t unusual for the times however.

    Someone describing themselves as a tree hugging progressive railing against supporting society’s most vulnerable can go and fuck themselves with a fishing rod though.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      You’d be looking at some early 20th century interpretations of leftism though, which is an important nuance. Lenin was a member of the Russian Social Democrats, but most people probably wouldn’t attribute his legacy to Social Democracy.