We are constantly asked to bend over backwards to accomdate people with deeply bigoted views, who wish to put those views into practice, yet are hold to a higher standard of discourse than they are. Every single time. We can’t bring up privileges afforded to some over others, or long-term disparities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. We are asked to bring a much higher level of evidence than those who push for exclusionary policies across not just the US, but the world.
What “left-liberal” consensus is that? The one that undermined unions? That veered to the right under the Clintons on a number of issues? If he thinks that last 30 years have been “left-liberal” he must think that means something other than what it means.
Literally no one on the actually left believes that. And once again, no, the Clintons, Obama, etc, were not on the left. They are squarely center-right neo-liberalism.
Blue collar workers were also relentlessly pursued by the GOP who argued that the blame lie with the “liberal-left” (who in no meaningful way existed in the US as part of the Democratic party until recently) and with civil rights, feminists, immigrants, etc.
Yet he seems unable to define the left in any meaningful way. 
