When Glenn Greenwald did his pivot around 2021, the HBGary story from 2011 was in the back of my mind. My hazy recollection is that the HBGary people talked about discrediting people and/or co-opting them. Perhaps this was a case of radical centrists effectively trying to discredit left figures and then effectively pushing the ones who were not really that deeply committed towards the right. The right has a much deeper pool of financial resources to work with as well, so for people who have som…
Being denounced and canceled was difficult but you'll notice I didn't really turn on the Democrats until they rolled over on the speech issue. After that I began to see they never had principles about anything, apart from preventing Republicans from taking office - and I was even fine with that, until they became noticeably worse than Rs on whole ranges of issues.