None of these people were leftists, they were liberals or "average" people molded by social environments.

To quote a post that I once stole from here from a poster I've now forgotten the origin of:

Liberals entire thing is "uphold the status quo". This is the position of pretty much every single politically illiterate liberal who really doesn't understand what any ideology actually is. They change their shape in order to fit themselves into whatever the existing social paradigm is.

This is why LGBT people got absolutely nowhere with liberals until they literally bullied them with riots and pride parades saying a big visible fuck you to everyone that ever tried to make them invisible. They could not be asked to change they had to be bullied and forced. Once the social paradigm is changed they then accept it.

This is why anger and cancelling on twitter became a thing. It bullied liberals into new social paradigms.

This is why it works for dirtbag leftists.

And this is why they picked up guns and shot at whoever the nazis told them to shoot at. Not because they were true believers. But because mussolini or hitler and every other fascist simply bullies them into a new social paradigm... and once the paradigm is changed they accept it.

Liberals are absorbomorphs. Their ideology is absorbomorphism.

These "leftists" were people placed into left social circles whose environment was surrounded by so much left that their absorbomorphism molded itself into a leftist.

When their social environments no longer forced them into this shape, they change shape.

They are unlike the depressed leftists cursed by Marx to a life of misery who can never give up their leftism. They change their shape continuously.