Someone walk me through the steps of how signing a 2020 *anti-Trump* open letter (read the text of it!) makes someone responsible for the dangerous right-wing illiberalism that self-same letter saw left illiberalism as potentially encouraging.
May 7, 2025 14:36You don't have to take my word for it!
harpers.org/a-letter-on-...1) Harper's letter (and many signatories, individually, in the years prior) warns that left illiberalism though not as dangerous as the right-wing version makes it easier for the latter to win. 2) This happens. 3) Signatories repeatedly declared Why Trump 2.0 Happened.
The 'how'dya like it now that what you wanted has happened?' line, hurled on loop to a group of people who said quite specifically that we wanted to *avoid* this outcome.
It’s because they didn’t like being reminded they were censorious.
(And, indeed, they wanted to continue doing so)
