I used to catch only bits and pieces of the Young Turks. I followed Lindy Li's X account, and that is it.
They were all supposedly progressives. Rubin made his shift in 2020, and it appears Uygur and Kasparian are shifting as well. Now Lindy Lin is defending Hegseth? Since the election, she is a completely a different person now. She's raving about Fox and Friends.
I can understand people changing their minds. I did too. I would expect two things.
- Coming from the progressive side, they should at least intellectually articulate why they used to embrace those views and how the change of mind has taken place. They have become caricatures of the right.
- They all spent years decrying fascism through the years of Bush and the Tea Party. Now that Trump exhibits every sign of fascism and more, they are shifting? Why didn't they shift when McCain or Romeny were leading the Republican Party?