I also think it's easier for a crank chud to become a crank leftist than to ever touch the toxic goop that is liberalism. If you can be convinced to have righteous anger instead of punching down, suddenly a union sounds like a good idea. So, in that sense, a quantum leap over center left to far left makes much more sense than the linear progression that the square/cube implies. I think it's a shortcoming of charting out politics in general