Great article. His analysis applies more widely too. I’m seeing a lot of libs being pushed right because of cultural issues. Someone on the “woke-left” is mean to them and they go running to Tucker Carlson. It sucks people so unprincipled that they collapse right or go “post-left” so easily - there’s a material analysis at play here too.

Fitting into this, I see people who are themselves pretty left conflate performative wokeness with the left. Taibbi is the biggest offender. He gets called out on it but has a blind spot to it, or it’s a grift, or both. At any rate, he’s leaning into that budding post-left populist market hard.