We can all be grateful that Glenn Greenwald has now placed himself squarely on the margins of American political discourse and no longer commands the following or the respect that he once did, despite his petty-bourgeois libertarianism and his creepy fascination with the despicable Ron Paul.
But in this piece, Greenwald IMO isn't exonerating the Trumpistas but pointing to the danger of the overreaction by the right-wing Democrats that could be aimed at extinguishing mass protest and actual radicalism once and for all. In view of Biden's equivocal and probably temporary "turn" to his left, many will not wish to see any danger in this. But if you have personally experienced the hatred and vitriol emanating from the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democratic party and the numerous Blue Dogs who have called for across-the-board suppression of "socialism," you will understand that they represent as much a danger to "our democracy" as the Trumpy Bear clown show, if not more. This is what Greenwald says about that: Washington, D.C. remains indefinitely militarized. The establishment wings of both parties are still exploiting the emotions surrounding the Capitol breach to justify a new domestic War on Terror. The FBI is on the prowl ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/14/fbi-arrest-left-wing-violence/ ) for dissidents on the right and the left, and online censorship in the name of combatting domestic terrorism continues to rise. It would have been helpful if Greenwald had cited instances of the "online censorship" or the FBI campaign to which he refers, but I think that the "authoritarian" danger of our time is far likelier to emanate from the Harvard Faculty Club and the secretive Washington clubs where Democratic policy gurus lurk than from the right-wing Republican circus, bad as that is. Not the least of the dangers is that the Democratic assholes will build up an effective state apparatus of repression only in time to turn it over to the Republicans, who, as always, will survive their much-bruited destruction and come back stronger than ever in 2022 if Team Biden revert to their traditionally unfathomable stupidity and snatch yet another defeat from the jaws of heir recent Pyrrhic victories. That's one of the biggest reasons to shut our pie holes about Trump the Hitler and all the rest of that bullshit. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6539): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6539 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80746564/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
