#Liberas be like full

Yet if the progressive Left has lost both their mooring and their minds, they have good company on the Right. 'Liberals believe in Liberty, I tell myself,' Thomas Frank wrote despairingly in the Guardian, yet they have become the primary advocates for censorship and thought control. This is an enormous departure from what once constituted liberalism. The tech oligarchs have been willing to play handmaidens to government suppression, censoring or demeaning dissent even from mainstream scientists on issues like the pandemic, gender or climate. The Left displays the growing tendency to seek control over information.

The ideological shift, shaped by a no longer responsible media, has turned into a screaming match between irreconcilables. ANNA MONEYMAKER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Video from January 6 is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the January 6th insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building on Jin Washington, DC. Much of the noise comes from Substack, where long time center-Left writers like Andrew Sullivan and Matt Taibbi have taken on Biden for his embrace of the progressive culture war and the media for its preference for narrative over facts and rational discussion. The good news is that some liberals are pushing back against this awful dichotomy. Yet this is precisely why it's imperative for traditional liberals in the Truman to Clinton tradition to stand up to these two increasingly brutal worldviews.

One side embraces political violence while the other side is widely supportive of government-sponsored censorship, defunding the police, indoctrination in schools and an apocalyptic environmental agenda that threatens to further immiserate the middle class, the working class, and the poor. This has led many old style liberals to see conservatives as allies against the Left's abandonment of America's core values for a more Stalinist brand of politics-only to be greeted by the kind of revelations we've been getting from the hearings, to say nothing of the Right's support for guns without restrictions, and using vigilantes to inform on those getting abortions.Īmericans are getting squeezed. Many have looked to the progressive camp as the 'Resistance' to Trump's autocracy, yet the Left itself has become increasingly censorious, though this has not stopped it from being embraced by President Joe Biden and much of his party. And far from a fringe, some Republicans have gone so far as paying homage to the lunatic Capitol stormers.

#Liberas be like full

The January 6 Committee's hearings have been full of evidence of a deeply authoritarian streak within parts of the American Right.