Yeah, illiberalism is festering in the left.
Its festering among democrats and modern neoliberals. These are the groups that believe authoritarianism and imperialism are ok if it suits their agendas. Leftists do not. We genuinely consider liberals and the democratic party center and center-right. There are no politicians in power federally that represent leftism or leftists.
The left/liberal/democrat distinction is an important one. We disagree with alot of the crap coming out of institutions controlled by the democratic party. As of the early 90's, corporate interests were able to buy the democratic party making the differences between democrats and republicans largely unimportant as there was no longer a party even remotely representing the interests of the working class.
Easy way to tell a leftist from a democrat/liberal:
Leftists hate Clinton for the Crime Bill, selling the democratic party to alot of the same business interests that already controlled the republican party, and the Telecommuniccations Act that destroyed american media. Leftists disagreed with the unnecessary NATO expansion that took place under Clinton seeing as how the Soviet Union was dissolved before he took office.
Democrats/liberals thought he was great.
Leftists strongly dislike Obama for the interventions in Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Leftists despise Obama for backing the 2014 Coup in Ukraine. Leftists were strongly disappointed that instead of pushing for universal healthcare, Obama decided to use the right-wing, Heritage Foundation's medical care plan that just mandated people to buy private insurance, which just led to more price-gouging. Leftists also hated that Obama ran on "Codifying Roe on day #1" and after elected said, "it's not my top legislative priority."
To Democrats/liberals, he was the "greatest president of our lifetimes."
Leftists HATE Biden. We didn't vote for that guy. Many leftists know him as "Jim Crow Joe" after his part in authoring the crime bill. He was a staunch advocate for the Iraq war. He has advocated freezing Medicare, medicaid, social security and even veteran's benefits at least 3 times. He is anti-choice, despite what he says for the cameras. He and his family are corrupt and on the take and always have been. He once bragged in the Senate about trying to sell out and being told by the business interests he was pandering to to "come back in 10 years," and he did just that. He claims he tries to compromise with his political opposition, but really all he does is make concessions to the point he has conceded his whole agenda. He hasn't kept a SINGLE campaign promise he made to voters, and nobody on the left actually expected him to. He did keep one campaign promise tho; he gave a speech during his campaign to a collective meeting of the major financial interests and told them "nothing will fundamentally change." He is dragging out a war in Ukraine by violating international law against supplying nations with weaponry while engaged in state-to-state conflict. His sanctions are destroying the economies of the west.
Democrats/liberal only want him out of office due to the obvious cognitive decline, completely excusing EVERY other problem in his past and his presidency. (and i had to leave a ton off the list)
TL;DR: Leftists aren't Democrats and don't identify with modern neoliberalism. Please stop using Leftist/liberal/democrat interchangeably. It's as inaccurate as calling a Libertarian an Evangelical Conservative.