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Comment by ajarmst | Hacker News Reader

Stop going on the Daily Caller to praise Tucker Carlson would be a good first step.

What's the point of championing a position if you're not going to do it towards the opposition? And encourage your cohort to understand what the opposition is thinking? We don't need yet another ineffectual nobody telling people predisposed to hate Carlson that Tucker Bad.

Edit: This submission got me reading some of Greenwald's other recent posts, here's a comment from one:

>Glenn, I am a life-long conservative who recently found you here on Substack after seeing you on TC Tonight a couple of times. Your work is remarkable. In just a short time you have opened my eyes to a lot of new issues and perspectives. [...]

>Turns out, us conservatives have a lot in common now with true liberals, and we are going to have to find ways to work together to deal with [...]

Glenn's thesis in the referenced interview is that conservatives are the true liberals, not the ones who now call themselves liberals. This respondent has been encouraged to find ways to work together with other conservatives and colonize the words "liberal" and "socialist". I'm not sure that encouraging conservatives to find a way to work with real socialists like Tucker and Steve Bannon is the progress that you think it is.

(Yes, that Bannon, Carlson and Trump are the real socialists is the theory Glen is espousing: see https://www.mediaite.com/politics/glenn-greenwald-describes-...)

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