TTT - A prerequisite of belonging to the hard left is to see the world through a haze of nostalgia, longing to return to a world that, in reality never actually existed.
If you can so willfully bend the sense of reality you bring to your political views, then the idea that the rest of the nation is actually in agreement, but is stopped from voting for you for reasons that remain baffling, is a very short step.
Never underestimate the power of denial.