Later goes on to say that claiming all billionaires are rightwing is a "self-serving myth" lmao.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1449384252718600192
Ah yes, Bernie was treated like royalty when not just one, but two MSNBC commenters compared Bernie and his campaign to Nazis.
A major name in liberal news broke down into tears and said Bernie would execute him and his family in Central Park during an election.
Edit: also bless Sarota for trying to argue with him. Glenn clearly has zero economics or sociology underpinning his opinion. He thinks woke = leftism
The Central Park meltdown still makes me laugh. Was that dude (I forget his name) reading the chapo subreddit? I don't think there was any other media or group joking about executing reactionaries in Central Park.
Chris Matthews will absolutely be first in line for the Central Park guillotine
I don’t think there was any other media or group joking about executing reactionaries in Central Park.
IIRC those jokes started because of the meltdown.
Maybe. But just reflect on the idea of the subreddit melting Chris Matthew's brain. If it still existed you could send him links to the threads about Central Park. Getting to luxuriate in his reaction is what reddit took from us.
MSNBC also had a body language expert on to try and prove that Bernie hates women.
They had a body language expert on to explain that Bernie was a greedy unscrupulous jew that was out to drink your children's blood
It's weird. I thought I remembered Greenwald previously criticizing the media's treatment of Bernie.
He's always been a weird libertarian, he just stumbled onto some good stories.
I remember when Glenn still worked for Salon and he did an interview with a Republican very upset with Obama administration domestic spying. Glenn was too dumb to see that this Republican was not sincere at all. I stopped reading him after that.
The most generous reading I'm willing to give him is that he figured out that there are indeed some really wealthy donors who throw money at progressive causes and then his brain imploded.
He wants to believe that socialists have institutional power so that he can legitimize the narrative that he's being "attacked" when he gets criticized for being a reactionary.
and to think this guy had a considerable, good impact on Brazilian politics exposing a piece of shit judge... how is it possible that he's gone off the deep end like this?
He's also genuinely been a contrarian idiot since the very beginning, and has always held contradictory views. This tweet exemplifies GG pretty well. His insistence on conflating "cultural leftism", whatever the hell that means, with "political ideology" is just so dumb that I wonder why anyone engages with him at all. If some weapons manufacturer supplies weapons to further imperialism, and hires minorities to make those weapons, this company is now leftist, according to GG. Absolutely no analysis of class at all
but what's his endgame? who exactly is he trying to grift? the right sure as hell isn't going to welcome a gay journalist who's married to a socialist, and he's alienating the whole left with his dumb twitter bullshit... that's what I simply fail to understand lol
He keeps getting booked on Tucker Carlson, so rich conspiracy types is my guess.
"No friends to the right, no enemies to the left"
Glenn is violating this sacred creed.
He thinks he's making things better by offering suggestions about how things could be improved. But leftism is very fragile and prone to destructive infighting, and criticism is best handled very delicately, behind closed doors. Not in public where the right can see it and immediately grab those (sometimes quite good) arguments and use them as weapons.
What criticism is Glenn offering here? This is a radically different interpretation of political reality, not some sort of ideological dispute.
Glenn must have caught brainworms from being near Tucker Carlson too much, tragic
I'm looking forward to Greenwald's next book having a title like "The Dangerous American Left" and the text is entirely indistinguishable from books by unhinged, rabid right-wing lunatic authors.
If Bernie wins, leftists are having a guillotine party in Central Park.
Man, someone whose relationships were literally criminalized in the States 15 years ago has a lot to say about culture all of a sudden.
One of the really specific post-left opinions I see a lot is that ackshully Bernie got a ton of good coverage. Michael Tracey and Angela Nagle pushed this narrative a lot in 2020.
Trying to talk about "cultural leftism" (typically progressivism, particularly of the idpol type, I'd imagine) that corporate cultures do indeed have no conflict with is a classic right wing misunderstanding of the left.
Greenwald is debasing himself so hard every week it seems like.
One of the really specific post-left opinions I see a lot is that ackshully Bernie got a ton of good coverage.
Bernie got better coverage than prior candidates in so far as he did actually get some coverage and not all of it was open contempt. But he was also significantly more popular than the Dennis Kuccinichs and Jesse Jacksons of yesteryear (ironically, thanks to Hillary clearing the field in 2016 and spotlighting him as the only serious opposition).
Trying to talk about “cultural leftism” (typically progressivism, particularly of the idpol type, I’d imagine) that corporate cultures do indeed have no conflict with is a classic right wing misunderstanding of the left.
There's a nut of truth to the idea of leftism as a cultural force. If you want to take a materialist approach to economic and political analysis, then language and religion and regional affectation are going to have a role in that. Building a truly egalitarian society is as vital to the socialist project as building unions or forming co-opts or killing landlords, because de-atomizing one's community is a necessary precondition of large scale collective action.
If you hate your coworkers and fear your neighbors, all the Leftist theory in the world won't save you.
Greenwald is debasing himself so hard every week it seems like.
Greenwald's always been in bed with the libertarians. His hatred for the Bushs and the Clintons was useful in the moment, but it mostly served to occlude his shitty personal views. Now that they've been sidelined, all he can do is let his freak flag fly.
