Nick Szabo  🔑

Trump's a wannabe tin-pot dictator, as ugly a caudillo as a Chavez or a Duarte. Like them, he has no ideology. He's pure self. Discussion of SV being left or right is irrelevant in this context. That liberatarians like @prestonjbyrne + @NickSzabo4 can back such a man is nutso https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1033099418633953281 …

You spelled Duterte wrong & it’s lol you’re a journalist and casually lump him in with Chavez given the Philippines is a free market capitalist country whose current administration has literally the exact opposite economic & judicial policies to that of Venezuela

You got me on the spelling. (Had originally thought of referencing Perón, whose wife was Eva Duarte - messed with my head). But the rest of your critique emphasizes my point. Caudillos (strongmen) cloak themselves in ideology. Their policies may or may not differ. It's irrelevant

As for why Nick blocked you ... maybe he’s just not interested in dealing with journalists who call him nutso because his political view points don’t align with theirs? Perhaps you could try a more tolerant approach- isn’t tolerance a hall mark of liberals?

My God this is boring. I haven't blocked a single person in my Twitter life, but I'm tempted to now. But instead I'm off to bed. Maybe you should get some shut eye too. You might feel less jaded in the morning.

I think you are a great guy Mike - but see how you can be an easy target on this - for a lot of us the media seems to be bizarrely out of step with reality & hell bent on twisting a narrative - so you being a major media person parroting anti Trump talking points is concerning