The only misuse is by those CONservative/Tory Ideologues who hate equal rights for all humans. Equality is a principal grounded in our Constitution which eliminates anyone bowing to anyone or anything. You misuse the term leftist as a word coined to denigrate anyone refusing to follow fascism, totalitarianism, current Republicanism or any other ism infringing on human rights as are the followers of CONservatism in the form of the Republican Party of traitors led by the fascist Trump, the Republican CONgress, and stacked Judiciary. All tearing down the Constitution and the entire governing system of the U.S.A to feed the greed of the Corporate Oligarchy and the White Supremacist/Theocratic Dictators infesting the nation. Try using a real dictionary besides the Limbaugh revisionist pack of lies. Time for a Revolution.