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there's a kind of liberal who is nominally center-left, but in practice spends almost all of their time and attention chastising anyone in the left tent for not being left in the correct way, which naturally makes them comfortable with right-wingers discussing criticisms of dominant left-tent tendencies du jour. one wonders whether Greenwald is the reverse: a conservative who, in practice, spends all of their time and attention arguing for a different kind of conservative politics, ideally something paleo-flavoured - and along the way found the far-left much more congenial than e.g. Pat Buchanan did. Congenial, but not necessarily left-wing himself. certainly at one point this was Greenwald's outlook on far-left politics: http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/11/reality-of-latin-american-reaction-to.html quote:It is true that in this region (as is true for the U.S.), there remains a small, fervent band of left-wing fanatics with crazed enthusiasm for the worn-out, socialist/collectivist policies which have condemned millions upon millions of people throughout Latin America to poverty unimaginable to even the poorest Americans. These putative "mass demonstrations" in Argentina and Brazil are, in reality, nothing more than a few isolated spray-painting incidents of trite pacifist slogans in Brasilia, and a Cindy Sheehan-like "rally" of hard-core Socialists in Argentina led by an obese, Castro-idolozing, retired soccer player who found time away from his decade-old cocaine addiction to show up wearing an oh-so-clever t-shirt showing Bush's name spelled with a swastika. if that's a Stalinist, it's via a horseshoe someplace
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