[Drew68]

Very long article about the multiple journalists, authors, podcasters, substackers, comedians, influencers, and other various mostly Millennial (though some older and younger) internet personalities who were formerly left-leaning, --many of whom were past Bernie Sanders supporters, who are now labeled as right-wingers.

I'm familiar with many of the people mentioned here and one thing that almost all of them will tell you is that they didn't move to the right. They were excommunicated from the Left for not buying 100% into the Left's ever-changing and expanding woke requirements to be a member of their club. The Right merely welcomed them.

[jimfree]

Personalities drift, including those of writers, of magazines, of readers. Is the author unaware of former conservatives drifting left?

[PeterPrinciple]

But the present left-to-right acceleration began in earnest with the onset of the Trump years, in 2017.

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Interesting observation from the article.

One voice in the wilderness can have an effect. Now we need add ours continually.

But we need to know down deep why we fight. It will be a long fight, and some of the enemy can be educated. But we can’t give what we don’t have.

[Greenidgypsy]

The gallows was erected by a Leftist.

[clearcarbon]

"They were excommunicated from the Left "

Left behind, or maybe they just matured.

[Reverend Wright]

The Left ruthlessly enforces friend/enemy distinction.

These former leftists supported the Enemy on just one issue, and that was enough to get them expelled from the Friend Coalition.

And as you point out, the Friend Coalition and Enemy Coalition is constantly changing.

Fifteen years ago no-one demanded that everyone believe that men wearing dresses were “really” men. Now, refusing to pretend that they are gets one expelled from the Friend Coalition.

Same with Israel. In order to remain in the Left Friend Coalition they have to support Hamas against Israel.

[x]

Message: Don’t break from the herd.

This is a time when ideologies are being reformed and boundary lines are shifting, and they don’t want to be a part of it.

I wouldn’t say that Christopher Hitchens turned right. He threw in with the neocons because he thought that their wars would advance left-wing goals. He never joined the “religious nationalists” and carried on a war with them until the end.

Taibbi and Greenwald focus on the big lies of the age. Whether they’ll move back left or find a new home on the right I don’t know, but the notion that we shouldn’t challenge those lies and the powers behind them, isn’t worth much.

Blumenthal hates Israel, the US, and NATO. He hasn’t changed or moved right. In a sense, leftists who embrace the Ukraine War have.

[usurper]

The image of the gallows erected outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The greater the spectacle, the stronger its gravity.

You mean the one the capital police allowed to be set up to discredit Trump? Yea that one, and who by the way set it up so you could it in an article years later?

That’s what makes fascism so scary when it genuinely flares. It consumes. It grows.

Fascism has flared and consumed your sole, you have become that which you feared and embraced it. Now tattle off and and join your Jew hating, Jew murdering Hamas friends and tell us all about fascism.

[piasa]

ping

Window into someone’s world...

[piasa]

I think the author’s definition of left and “right” is not the same as say, Rush Limbaugh’s. They are thinking of “right” on the old faulty leftwing linear scale that was made by the left with theci tent of putting some imaginary distance between communism and fascism, when in fact these philosophies are both authoritarian, two sides of the same coin. Now, as in the 30s, these sibling movements seem hostile to each other because the must compete aggressively in recruiting from the same pool of revolutionary malcontents and anarchists, while neither is able to recruit from the same pool of people as constitutionalists. But when fighting our third group, they are mostly of one accord, with hardly any daylight between them.

The socialist “right” they know is as far from the American Right a/k/a the colorblind constitutional conservatism of the Reagan/Limbaugh years as one can get- it is so wholly alien, otherworldly, and incomprehensible to them that they don’t even have a word for it in their vocabulary.

[Betty Jane]

Thanks for introducing me to new names to look into.

[Betty Jane]

Thanks for introducing me to new names to look into.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Let us not forget Red Diaper Baby historian RON RADOSH who is a serious scholar on the Left in America.

Ron tells this story from inside the Left and methodically dissects their lies, deceptions, and MARXIST disinformation history over the past hundred years.

Well worth reading his early books.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They are not part of "The Right" and while I am willing to take support anywhere I can find it I will not accept them as "brothers in arms" maybe cautious allies that I keep a suspicious eye on at all times.

Because the truth is they have not changed.

The Left has just gone Guano Crazy.

These are leftists that just in some areas have a passing acquaintance with reality. Some of them may actually start to think about a few of the other things they have been spewing, something that a few on the Right would benefit from as well, and come to a more realistic view of life in more areas. In that case I would be willing to have them.

But they have not yet changed.

[Dat]

For some reason, left wing writers always go for long, meandering screeds that don’t really address anything. It seems like this is just some sort of ego exercise.

[dead]

sweet-sounding phrases that find their purest expression in the image of the gallows erected outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

Gullible dingbat.