The left used to be in touch with ordinary people, says Brandon Smith. But now they are out of touch and have a distance from working-class people. The presumption is that being 'left wing' means you're pro-trans kids or anti-racism. So we must grapple with what it has come to mean - but I'm not one of them.

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