User talk:2600:100B:B122:C553:25C6:3DF5:7F34:400A

Manifesto section
The article, under Manifesto, says: The author describes himself as someone identifying as being initially on the "authoritarian left",[64][65] before developing antisemitic, eco-fascist, ethno-nationalist, national socialist (Nazi), populist, and white supremacist views.

This is not, in fact, true. This excerpt from his manifesto: "Did you always hold these views? When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old highschool and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist" says that he falls on the political compass as authoritarian left, not that he fell, or used to fall.

My interpretation of the article is that the author is obfuscating, trying to pretend that Payton Gendron did not identify as authoritarian left, likely due to political bias.