I think the portion I pasted below is key. The left (and right) has been hijacked by a group of ideologues, and frankly most people don't know enough about this issue to form their own opinion thus follow the lead of their key opinion leaders in their self-selected news sites. people of all political stripes find the EOAA disturbing when they really look at it.
"The authors are anything but partisans. They are not even conservatives. Johnson is a history professor at Brooklyn College who has written abundantly about the betrayal of due process on campus. Taylor is a contributing editor at National Journal and, for more than three decades, has been one of the nation’s preeminent legal journalists. Both, they note, voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. They write in defense of America’s classical liberal heritage, a heritage that increasingly has come under attack by progressives as, allegedly, a tool of institutionalized white male privilege."
