Thing is, there was no need to exaggerate the man’s opinions. He was deliberately vague about them, but had surrounded and allied himself with the worst of the worst in terms of leftist rabble. The very fact that he had folk in Gaza manning phone banks for him during the primaries shows that the opinion of his radicalism was not unique to the American Right.

The fellow either looks a good deal more radical than he really is, or else he appears to stake out positions more radical than those he actually holds, in order to cause a sigh of relief to go up when he turns out to be less radical than feared.