All it took was for me was to cancel my membership of my country's Trotskyist party 25 years ago, and then slowly go disillusioned for 10 years or more.
But what I'm talking about here is the authorities of the left, and not its casualties. I understand completely how Liberal voters became hardline Progressives without knowing it during these past 10 years. If I'd been American or British I'd end the same way