A nice piece on NJR and how to avoid Taibbi/Greenwald brain where you end up hating liberals so much you end up a useful idiot for the fash.
A nice piece on NJR and how to avoid Taibbi/Greenwald brain where you end up hating liberals so much you end up a useful idiot for the fash.
The article is about how hating libs can one into a lazy thinker. It's focused on two writers who are slipping into conservative talking points, but parts of it could have been written about leftists slipping into dead-end ultraleft territory:
Dunking on libs is fun, and has some value, but we also need to maintain a broader perspective. Politics without the masses are adventurist politics. We can't write off every leftist who manages to get a platform as insufficiently left -- that's just ultraleft adventurism. Critical support is the name of the game, and that involves at least some support.