The Liz Cheney situation is a perfect microcosm of what the GOP is. They didn't turn on her for her family mantra of neocon militarism- they were totally cool with that. In fact they elevated her to a leadership position. But as soon as she decided to state a basic fact about/
the election results, rather than go along with the rest of the cult-like 'up is actually down' litmus test, then they all turned on her, just like that. It has nothing to do with 'rejecting interventionism' or w/e & everything to do with the GOP becoming a personality cult.
People like Glem have decided to cast that as further proof that since da shitlibs agree with Liz Cheney they are basically just neocons now. Rather than it being an indictment that the entire GOP, except for a select few, have decided to push a Democracy-erasing Big Lie.
It's always the same strawman, conflating objecting to their disingenuous bullshit (which is frequently just outright lies), with "oh you don't think you should criticize the powerful." Because being disingenuous is all they know.
After reading that awful piece on the Roth biographer, about systematically grooming & sexually assaulting his students and just being disgusted with how much of an unbelievable creep he is, I thought to myself, 'there's no way he's gonna defend this guy'. But nope...I was wrong.
You, a hypocritical lib: This dude groomed & abused his 8th grade students. He is a monster.
Me, a consistent, principled journalist: Oh yeah? Well, what about Obama?
If there is one thing you can objectively say Glenn is 'principled' in his defense of these days, its in defense of older men preying on teens & other various sex pests. And of course it's not bc he has his own self interests involved. That would be an odious smear.
Extreme "it wasn't torture, it was actually 'enhanced interrogation'" semantic hair-splitting vibes.
Also, a pathological inability to admit he's wrong. Glad to see things haven't changed.
Oh and who could forget, 'there's a special circle in hell for people like you.' But again, he did *not* use the word dementia. So it is YOU who are owned.
TFW you react to people pointing out your bullshit in a calm and normal manner.
The 'nothing will fundamentally change' was 'you didn't build that' level dishonesty from the 'left.' It was literally saying the opposite of what they claimed; Biden telling rich donors that if taxes were raised for them, their lives would not be changed at all.
But since 'the left' never met a smear or outright lie about Dems they didn't love, they made it into a central criticism of Biden. Because lying is good, as long as it furthers the cause of Socialism...or something.