It happens more often than you’d think — post-debate days, the weeks leading up to Election Day, Election Day and its aftermath, Mondays after a particularly saucy weekend presidential tweet-storm. The water cooler talk turns to politics, how we all agree that President Trump is just awful, how someone needs to do something. Inevitably, the conversation turns to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as counterpoints of “going too far to the left”. I retort that both of them are actually milquetoast New Deal Era-style progressives, and that my personal politics are left of theirs.