WTH is a leftist? Are all these people left handed?
leftist
adjective
1. believing in or supporting tenets of the political left
noun
1. a person who belongs to the political left
If you want to be nice, how about socialist?
If you tend to be more hard core, how about communist?
Now THAT would be controlling the language!
They do not have the guts nor the to be communists. So would not be any where close to accurate.
Back in the '60s, Canadian commies , without more than a dab of irony, called themselves "liberals in a hurry".
Now I more fully realize just how truthful they were!