Trump happened and put the lefts priorities to the test Theres been a new public fracturing of the intellectual left, typified by an essay last week from Nathan J Robinson, editor of the small, independent, socialist magazine Current Affairs, accusing Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi of bolstering the rights arguments. He is the more reasonable face of what seems to be a new industry arguing that Greenwald is a wolf in sheeps clothing, setting the rights agenda for it.
Under the title How to end up serving the right, Robinson claims that Greenwald and Taibbi, once his intellectual heroes, are inadvertently or otherwise shoring up the rights positions and weakening the left. He accuses them of reckless indifference to the consequences of criticising a liberal establishment and making common cause with the rights similar agenda. Both writers, argues Robinson, have ignored the fact that the right wields the greatest power in our societies.
This appears to be a continuation of a fight Robinson picked last year with Krystal Ball, the leftwing, former co-host of a popular online politics show called The Rising. Robinson attacked her for sharing her platform with the conservative pundit Saagar Enjeti. Ball and Enjeti have since struck out on their own, recently launching a show called Breaking Points.
Notably, Greenwald invited Robinson on to his own YouTube channel to discuss these criticisms of Ball when Robinson first made them. In my opinion, Robinson emerged from that exchange looking more than a little bruised.
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