De Blasio was originally a LaRouche follower. They’re so extreme that they’ve hit the extremist circle in the middle, so they can be either extreme right or extreme left.
I have no idea why they decided to do this or what their objective was. The only telling point is that the ditz - aka, Occasional Cortex - didn’t try to respond or didn’t even seem to care to do so.
Larouche is dead but his band of kooks survives. They really defy being described by the usual political categories. I first ran into them 40+ years ago in college. One of their members, a scroungy hippie guy, was out in front of the student union one day with a bullhorn denouncing a political science professor as not being “a real communist.” I took his class. He was a real communist. The next year at the beginning of the fall semester when student organizations had information tables set up in the student union, the Larouchies had two clean-cut guys in neckties and on their table were pictures of Jefferson and Paine. I was a member of a conservative student group and they made contact with us. One of the guys met with them in a house where a whole bunch of them lived together. He described te atmosphere as being cult-like.