March 30, 2022:
Crude eristic.
"The Soviet Union has collapsed..."
By way of exceptionally shallow rationalization of "I'm with her".
Once upon a time he considered himself a "Marxist". What he meant by that was an easy suture of elitist Frankfurt School anti-consumerism with elitist academic Sociology, none of which had the first thing to do with old Moor. Now with income and mortgage and children to send to private schools his views have evolved. Rightward, to DP orthodoxy. So that he advocates for the conventional centrist Neoliberal in an election which is all about rejection of Neoliberalism — a watershed election when the international collapse of Neoliberalism becomes domestic. In a context when Bernie would have won.
The eristic is real. Was the rightward drift? Or was he always there to begin with? Aren't they all?