Greenwald has moved on from wrong to just incomprehensible - some imponderable mix of narcissism and wild idealism crossed with enemy-of-my-enemy. Greenwald has always hated most the violent cynicism, hence moral fraud of American foreign policy. And let's admit it. Yeah, that.
https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1395206502059741193
But his response has been to embrace Trump as the enemy-of-my-enemy. There were elements of Trumpism - rhetorical tics - vaguely corresponding to Greenwald's outlook. The 'we kill people, too' bits, which were in fact just bloody-minded, not moral clarity.
Liberal foreign policy - 'the blob' - has always suffered moral schizophrenia. A tendency to timeshare between high ideals and sordid realism, rather than finding any sane compromise. Greenwald is replicating that schizophrenia but in defense of a Trumpism that wasn't.
He's pining for some sort of ideal Trumpism - Orange Man Good who would have been Greenwald-like, which the real Trump wasn't/isn't in the least. Some Trump who denounces foreign policy hypocrisy openly, pulls the troops out, stops firing so many drones at innocents.
And now Greenwald is craftily scheming on behalf of this non-existent ideal Trump, shading threat assessments to give that Trump a bit more breathing room. But, since that Trump doesn't exist, it's bizarre. Realpolitik in defense of Cloud Cuckooland.
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