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Except for the awful person part this is just wrong though. The fact that he claims to be a socialist doesn't negate the fact that he is functionally indistinguishable from a mainstream democrat when you actually look at his political opinions.
Yeah I don't get the whole "he's left by US standards" arguments. It's well known that Americans are politically illiterate but that doesn't make Vaush a leftist in any sense. The left might not be what it was in the 1920's but it still exists and the people involved are actual leftists while Vaush is just a Democratic stooge. His social views can sometimes be to the left of most Americans, until you hear his racial takes and it's to the right of many Americans.
He's a conservative man with a few social justice opinions that could be considered "left."