Hell is other Leftists

To most people on the Right, “the Left” forms a coherent, unified bloc that out there to revive wokeness, only now with socialist characteristics. Yet the Left is far from united, not even amid the Republican Party’s political doldrums in America and the opportunities opened up by the British Right’s descent into hard-line reaction. On the contrary, no one skewers a Leftist as enthusiastically — and as viciously — as other Leftists. To get a sense for this, consider the fates of Taylor Lorenz, Boots Riley, and Zohran Mamdani: three figures with large footprints on the Left who’ve recently come to realize that hell is other Leftists, to adapt the famous line from Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit. Lorenz, a journalist-influencer hybrid — a kind of reverse Joe Rogan for people who never took t