I wasn’t arguing in favor of making him a leader, just objecting to the trolling about a “left leadership”. The very concept of empathetic people (a.k.a. “left”) is to not crave leadership and to encourage diversity in opinions, which also means that we typically never agree on many things. That’s the main weakness of people with a conscience versus those who follow an authoritarian cult.
After having used reddit until the API changes, lemmy seems way too civilized ;) No biggie, have a good day!