When was the Western World more leftist?

[CumbrianLefty]

Which culminated in the neoliberal 80s that represented a new change of economic and cultural perspective. The decade of individualism and consumerism. And then the 90s were the full consolidation of that system as a general consensus.

Ah yes, "the end of history".

Part of the problem for many left/centre-left parties in the developed world is that their current ruling elites had their worldview formed during this period, and adjusting from that is not easy.

[CumbrianLefty]

The glorious years of 2008 - 2015.

LOL imagine calling Jim Crow America and extremely irrational paranoia over commies a period of leftism.  

Which peaked when the GOP were in power.

[CumbrianLefty]

Well if you are using a totally purist version of "leftist" then it will by definition apply to only a limited number of places and timescales. Which makes it a slightly pointless exercise, perhaps.