the New York Times is a center-right neoliberal newspaper with a thin paint of "blue tribe" social issues on top. The Wall St. Journal is a center-right neoliberal newspaper with a thin paint of "red tribe" anti-tax paint on top.
https://www.quora.com/Are-left-wing-Democrats-of-the-United-...
Universal basic income, free university education and free state-run healthcare are leftist... no Democrat puts those things in their platform so I wouldn't call any democrat leftist.
That's not a logical conclusion. Even if they did support those things, they wouldn't put them in their platform now because it wouldn't fly now. You're defining "leftist" as "actively supports X, Y, and Z," which is arbitrary. And the part about Europe is a red herring; this isn't Europe.