the painful and frustrating and often incendiary divisions between leftists and liberals we experience on social media has deep roots in liberal cable news and legacy media, where normies have been receiving a worldview for a decade plus that does not originate in the needs or views of the US working class. all too often, the MSNBC/NYT set demonizes and scapegoats leftists, socialists, and anti-establishment populists. but folks we are actually not the problem here and never have been