Some lefties like Taibbi are smart enough to know this is all going to cause a backlash to the left at some point!
There are naïve people who are starting to understand that the instigators of all this, want nothing short of a full-blown violent Revolution.
I would classify Taibbi as an old-style “hippie” liberal. He actually takes their stated platforms of anti-war, anti-central government and personal freedom somewhat seriously.
So having spent much of his time during the Obama regime investigating how the “hope and change” Black President was actually causing so much death and mayhem in the world, building the deep state, and then watching the deep state and a compliant media being used against Trump, Taibbi is having the scales fall from his eyes.