The American left has had its own set of prisms, often idealizing guerrillas who were no more than bitter men with automatic weapons.
I asked a number of my friends, also part of the American left at the time, and none of them can remember either.
Who in the American left had any intelligence, at least any of the military variety worth sharing with an enemy?
A small plane crash also claimed another member of the American left who was getting up Republican noses.
Stuck with its historical image of a reactionary church, however, the Latin American left was slow to recognize this change.
Jacoby's premise is that the American left has had the stuffing knocked out of it by the last 10 years.
The history of the American left between the two world wars is very much a minority taste.
It was hard to see how there could be one American left who hadn't either emigrated or hanged himself.
Pickens' militia filed around the American left to the rear as planned after getting off their second volley.
But the issues that have split the American left in this century were not the expression of narcissistic small differences.