People like Tim Pool, who will never stop outing themselves as former leftists, are attracted to this type of narrative because it obviates the necessity of them admitting they were wrong.
“No! You see, the things I can’t specify that I believed in which lead me to be a leftist were objectively correct, and the movement was mislead”
That’s saying some socialism is good
All leftists at the time were on the same team that bundled subprime mortgages in an attempt to take money from you in the form of financial service fees to offset the fact that the urban urchins were never expected to repay their mortgages
It was all a scam to divest whitey of generational privilege
Edit to finish the thought:
The bank CEO’s were lefties who understood not to question the new triple a rated mortgage backed securities. The occupy wall street protesters were largely lefties who thought it was the banks who came up with the idea out of greed, when it was really HUD who conceived and pushed it.