because he s leftist

A leftist who makes tons of money from other people's hard work. Bizarre but that is the new normal.

America's Left and Right are in general both quite skewed to the right. Our right wing party here in Australia would be considered left in America. The American left wing party is still considered right wing through the Australian political lens.

I'm hesitating to say through the global lens, since I just don't know. But my inkling would be that the majority of the western world has a similar political outlook. America has perverted it's political compass I feel.

Arresting people for going into a local park is considered to be more left wing? Locking down people is considered to be more left wing? The draconian, authoritarian measures taken in Australia surrounding its covid response were truly shocking.

It would be very impressive if you could divine the Australian political climate from the response to a once in a lifetime pandemic. It was also a much more varied response than you're painting it to be.

>You can't gauge Australia's general policymaking from what was an unprecedented event in our history, we were in a state of emergency, it can be hard to get every decision right in such a situation

That is the perfect time to judge people. If somebody is willing to abandon their principles when it is a challenging situation then you can't trust them. Anybody can stick to their principles when everything is going well.

So we just ignore the 99% of the rest of our political history, including the actual policies we have right now, and the politicians we have right now, in favour of painting our own little finger paintings about Australian politics overall because of the pandemic response? How about we call it what it was, which was neither left nor right, but a bout of authortarianism. That is something Australia actually does have a trend towards.

I agree that might be when you judge a politician, but that isn't even what we are talking about.

>Arresting people for going into a local park is considered to be more left wing? Locking down people is considered to be more left wing?

Generally yes, the leftists like to control individuals and consider the state more important than individuals and their freedom.

This is a disturbing recent trend unfortunately.