The political views of @ChrisLynnHedges have changed dramatically over the last 15 years. He now insists on the necessity of a "left-right coalition, which will include people whose opinions are not only unpalatable but even repugnant..." #RageAgainstWarMachine 1/
But he argued vehemently against an alliance with the extreme right in "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America," published in 2008. He poured scorn on the self-deluding liberal appeal for dialogue with these reactionary forces. He wrote: 2/ 
"Debate with the radical Christian Right is useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It is a movement based on emotion and cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. ... 3/
"This movement is bent on our destruction. The attempts by many liberals to make peace would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly." But now Hedges says that allying with "unpalatable" and "repugnant" right-wing forces is a necessary concession to political reality. 4/
His 2008 argument against alliances with the right included a sentence that now reads as a prescient warning against the path Hedges is currently embarked upon. "Alvin Toffler wrote that if you don't have a strategy you end up being part of someone else's strategy." 5/
And that is what is happenening to Hedges. Rejecting a turn to the working class based on a socialist program, he justifies adopting fascists as allies in a make-believe fight to "topple corporate power," and, in so doing, makes himself part of their reactionary strategy. 6/6
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