Too white, too old, too male, and too centrist (read: too happy with capitalism per se and not an early or enthusiastic supporter of the AOC/Bernie agenda; too close to Obama's and Hillary's positions on these matters, in fact).
The consistent line of the further left is that worries about electability favoring more centrist, white, male candidates like Mayor Pete, Joe B, and Beto are a trap and Republican Lite always loses to the real thing.
Cum grano salis, I think.
So being further left or more centrist, as the left now define it and really have defined it for years, is a question of not only class politics but what we generally call identity politics, the fruit and further pursuit of the civil rights, sexual, and cultural revolutions, rolled into one.
Hence the talk of reparations, of quotas for women, and the opposition toward not just Joe, Pete, and Beto but even Bernie based openly and squarely on race, sex, age, and, as it turns out, sexual orientation.
Recall how Pete in early days got a pass for much of his centrism because he is gay, and his stories of how he realized that and adjusted to it and is living it evoked great sympathy and admiration.
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