The thing is if Aaron Coleman actually were some kind of brilliant, charismatic firebrand who actually seemed like a real leader and activist who turned out to have horrific skeletons in his closet I'd still be mad at his defenders but I'd empathize

But he's not though

He's... he's terrible

He's an awkward mushmouthed ignoramus who can't give a decent speech to save his life, who makes all his social media posts via copy-paste, who spent months accidentally alienating people because he can't turn off his teenage edgelord mode

He won that primary BY ACCIDENT because no one paid attention and less than 10% of the population of the district voted

And it was still only by 14 votes

And that's exactly what Glenn Greenwald likes, a "fairy tale ending"

I mean we're being trolled, it's the thing

You can tell, right, you can feel it

They know he's an asshole and a dumbass who decided to become a "progressive" two minutes ago to try to get laid

They like that he stumbled into power by accident

That's what gets them off

It's Chris Arnade's whole "front row kids vs back row kids" thing

Thinking that the *definition* of "working class" is "shitty loser", that *all* standards of *any* kind are "classist" - morality and competence included - and that leftism means supporting *bad people*

Anything to own the smarmy libs, which they equate to everyone who ever got better grades or did better at work or had more friends than someone else due to not sucking as much

It's the brand of "populism" that got Donald Trump in the White House

That's why this fight is so bitter and so impassioned, on both sides

We're still fighting the same war as in 2016, by proxy

Glenn can't just come out and be pro-Trump but he's extremely anti-anti-Trump, he obviously identifies hard with TrumpISM if not Trump himself

"The President of the United States doesn't know anything, he can't even talk coherently, he has no qualifications for the job"

"Yeah and I bet you really hate that, you A-student teacher's pet front-row-kid neoliberal nerd cuck

Well he's in charge now so EAT SHIT LMFAO"

We've sat through four years of this incredible bullshit -- the purest kind of utterly vacuous identity politics, "This New York mogul who inherited billions FEELS working class, because he's an asshole!"

And it's still not fucking over

Having to sit here and listen to fucking podcasters from New York lecture everyone that if they're horrified by Coleman's actions they come from a sheltered bubble of corporate wealth and don't know life on the streets

My fucking God