This is a pretty wild statement and a pretty crazy chain of events. I really don’t know enough abt the particulars to understand post-2015 Glenn. But I do know that the defining thing abt Glenn has always been the Manichaean worldview. Humanity is divided into three groups.
https://twitter.com/erikwemple/status/1321896097099489283
2/ There’s Glenn. People who agree with Glenn. And then finally the liars and scoundrels and hacks who make up the rest of humanity. For centuries Christians have debated the eternal fate of those who’ve never had the gospel preached to them at all. They haven’t had ...
3/ the chance to hear the message. They haven’t rejected it. They’ve never had the chance. I don’t know how the comparable group is deemed in Glenn theology. Do people in Sudan or the rain forests of Brazil who’ve never heard of Glenn get classed amongst the good people or ...
4/ the fallen humanity who doesn’t stridently agree with Glenn bout everything. My own sense is that Glenn’s melodramatic resignation announcement where he speaks of the sacrifice of giving up a steady income on principle is quite genuine. His whole world view and ...
5/ mission is so turbofueled by his vision of his own righteousness that it’s probably impossible for Glenn to be knowingly disingenuous or lie. It just wouldn’t fit. Anything Glenn thinks is not only true but obviously true because of the critical fact that Glenn believes it.
6/ Indeed, it’s so obviously true that if you don’t think the same way you’re clearly a hack, scoundrel, establishment lapdog. This is my best guess at why he finds himself as Tucker Carlson’s BFF and decides that opposition to white nationalist hate groups is just an ...
7/ establishment diversion to distract people from Glennite radicalism. He can’t see beyond his own self righteousness and the evilness of everybody or disagrees with him. That leads you to a kind of infinite regress of increasingly malevolent ideological bedfellows.
8/ The center-left doesn’t fall in line behind Glennism, which clear means the center left and its leaders are phony and corrupt. And it so happens there are some other people who also find them corrupt: Republicans. If “identity politics” is a sort of left false ...
9/ consciousness, well there are some other people who are down on identity politics: white nationalists, and incels ideologues and foreign authoritarians who oppose the global liberal order, such as it is. It’s all an infinite regress and revolting against your own ...
10/ publication as a sell out establishment tag basically ll fits together.
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