Is Mehdi Hasan wrong too? Are we all imaging it?
Yes. Saying Leftists "propped him up" is a stretch beyond all reason.
nikkas said "he's right about checks" and Medhi Hasan + a few others are pretending as if that's an ideological endorsement.
There's a way to be reasonable about things - saying "this guy is terrible, but he is right about this specific issue" is a normal person thing to say.
Claiming that acknowledging that a person is right means you're endorsing them as a politician is howling lunacy.