Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence
Dr. Anthony Fauci has generously said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not "inherently malicious," while describing him as "a very disturbed individual." But it's simply bad faith to call yourself a "leftist" while, in practical terms, you're working to sabotage decades of hard-won, partial progress and allow fascists to win. Even the scaled-back Biden agenda, symbolizing his party's shift to the left, has been "transformative" in some ways — particularly if it can be built on further. Cohen's deeper point that "credulous news consumers who reside snugly in the bubble of corporate liberal media … are being propagandized and oversold on Biden" is probably true to some extent. Given the mainstream media's relentless focus on "inflation" and "recession" rather than jobs and economic recovery, I would argue it's done more to undermine support for Biden than to promote it.
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