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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's nothing "super progressive" or "alt-left" (whatever that even means) about Elrich. He's not even progressive. With a few exceptions, he's quite conservative, in the traditional sense of the word: conserving things the way they are now.

Also, Greater Greater Washington is not a person.

Also, there are over 1.1 million people in Montgomery County. The idea that there is one person who represents the political views of 1.1 million people is foolish. Like asking "Who best represents the political culture of Alaska or Delaware?"[/quote]

I'm OP and I didn't want to digress too much in defining Elrich because I want to get back to the original question, but some friends and I were talking about it and came up with that "alt-left" descriptor for Elrich. In horseshoe theory, far-left populists mirror far-right populists. Elrich is a "stick-it-to-the-Man" contrarian even if the results end up actually regressive. To put it in popular political culture, Elrich is less an MSNBC or Pod Save America liberal, in so much as a Chapo Trap House, The GrayZone, Jimmy Dore type contrarian. I actually remember a CTH podcast about how much they hate YIMBYs for being "neoliberal shills."

IMHO I have come across a lot of people in MoCo (Silver Spring mostly) with that kind of politics, but most people in the county seem to be a generic kind of anti-Trump resistance liberal. [/quote]

He is definitely a contrarian, as shown by all of those 8-1 Council votes. However, he consistently supports affluent haves (for example, people in Bethesda who don't want taller buildings or fewer parking lots or more apartments or ADUs or the Purple Line or...), and if they're not the Man, who is?[/quote]

The Evil Developers™ and Big Corporations. Obviously. [/quote]

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