Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that Ive been meaning to write about ever since.
It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties them to the sudden spike in anti-Asian hate crimes weve been seeing. Smith shared his screenshot with the caption, I hold by my prediction that the American Left is going to split into A) social democrats, and B) foreign-policy-obsessed pseudo-tankies.
How do we stop the B group from driving the narrative? one of Smiths followers asked him.
Well, first we teach everyone the word tankie! Smith replied, with a Substack article he authored explaining that any leftist who opposes western imperialist agendas against China should be branded with that label and dismissed.
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