The Aaron Coleman fiasco is a pretty great demonstration of how the whole Dirtbag Left thing is itself incredibly shallow affective identity politics, even as they claim to hate identity politics The people who had his back were on his side *because* he was an Internet troll
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Like if he were exactly the same person but actually *better at politics* in the traditional sense - if he "came off as a hypocrite" because he was actually nice in public - he'd have no allies at all
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Just being consistently mindlessly a prick to everyone at all times was a *successful media strategy* for this kid Because there's this whole contingent of columnists and podcasters who use the same strategy themselves, defining fakeness and hypocrisy as the worst thing
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It's very, very, very Trumpian It's exactly what people mean when they try to juggle this paradox of how Trump is "the most honest man in Washington" when he lies to their faces constantly (because he lies badly and perfunctorily)
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He was always hurting the right people for them.
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Being real here, though: "abusive to women" is a feature for these types, not a bug.
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Why do you keep saying was? Is he out of the running?
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No, he missed the deadline to withdraw so this is still going until November I guess
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"Yeah, I abused X...but for M4A!" The Bernie Bro story.
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