Everyone, no matter their intelligence or education, has a blind spot of some kind. For Chomsky, who so accurately depicts the failures of the liberal establishment, it's his inability to remember that when in the voting booth. This also applies to Thomas Frank, who will go on and on about the failures of the lib establishment and accurately state they will never change if we keep voting for them and then do so anyway. As an aside, I've never seen anyone who fits the description of an alligator person, all mouth and no ears, than him.

Perhaps even more damaging than the policies these modern day libs create once in power is that these corporatist, triangulating ideas become the leftward limit of acceptable US politics.

While some want to place all blame on the Repubs and their voters, to me, those libs who have endorsed an ever more corporatist/US hegemonist foreign policy agenda cloaked in meaningless social/woke platitudes, are the real culprits as they have effectively removed any progressive policies from consideration.