The "professional left": a bunch of "firebaggers" [View all]

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What's the purpose of that designation? It's intended to denigrate and marginalize people who criticize the establishment/administration from the left. It's purpose is to ridicule. It suggests that people on the left are mindless fantasy bots who buy their ideas wholesale and don't deserve a seat at the table.

According to this "thinking", those to the left of the administration are nothing more than the left wing equivalent of the tea party: They're "firebaggers".

Like other such misbegotten concepts, a tiny germ of truth can be found: There are a handful of folks on the left who oppose everything that this administration does or says but they're not representative of the vast majority of people who criticize the administration from the left.