The problem is partially leftist, sure, but the real problem is people inside the beltway thinking they can solve the problems of the nation and the world if folks just listen to them. The central planning fallacy swings on hinges and is just as bad in the hands of right wing "freemarketeers" who too sadly trip into the crony capitalist camp as it is in the hands of Maoists.
You can't fix the world from DC. You can't see the problem because you are the problem.
What she calls “the dark past” was the Reagan Era.
That’s how far left this person is.